https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37888
--- Comment #8 from Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> 2012-06-24 16:30:40 UTC --- Oh my word, the shadowy Gay Agenda strikes again! Not happy with wanting to destroy Western morality and attempting to recruit innocent children to the dastardly Gay Lifestyle... now they want to infiltrate Wikipedia with well-sourced and high-quality articles on LGBT history by finding potential outreach opportunities with LGBT-related groups and organisations. There are a lot of important and notable topics related to LGBT history and experience which we don't cover on a variety of Wikimedia sites for whatever reason. I have a list of dozens and dozens of notable people from British history who we don't have articles on English Wikipedia about. English Wikisource has no LGBT or gay history portal or categories (yet). English Wikinews has, mostly thanks to my laziness, failed to cover much of the same-sex marriage debates in the US or the UK despite wide public interest. I'm not going to try and claim there's systemic bias, but there is an opportunity here to do better, just as there are with broader gender issues and with more widely-acknowledged systemic bias issues. I cannot deny my militant agenda off-wiki in demanding basic civil equality and not having much time for people who consider me a sub-human, morally degraded Sodomite. On wiki, my agenda is simply building free culture, and to do that, we need to cover the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people too. Outside of the fevered fantasies of the most extremely bigoted, I fail to see how this is controversial. There's dozens and dozens of historical archives, museums, groups and communities who can help provide material and support the development of fair, neutral and non-agenda-driven material on LGBT history. Having a place to co-ordinate that across wikis and across countries seems pretty uncontroversial to me. If the people responsible for deciding on mailing list matters consider either Fae or Varnent to not be suitable, I'm happy to administer the list. I have no evil shadowy intentions and I know how to use mailman. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
