Generally, we do okay. Several of these articles are battlefields, however. You can see the fallout of a current one here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#AndyTheGrump and the history of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning and its talk page. While my impression here is entirely empiric, I suspect that the various WMF projects do a fairly good job in the LGBT topic area because so many of our volunteers bring personal experience to the table (either being LGBT or LGBT-friendly). Or to put it more prosaically, most of us don't care who sleeps with whom. Risker/Anne On 9 May 2012 16:57, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I've found that Wikipedia handles transgender issues fairly well. A good > example is the Chaz Bono article. This article is an example of what should > be the most problematic case on Wikipedia: A BLP of a transgender person > mostly known for being the child of a celebrity. You would expect the > article to be a horrible embarrassment, but it's actually well done and > uses the correct pronoun throughout. The article has been frequently > attacked over the years as you can see from the talk page, but it's always > been dealt with promptly and thoughtfully. In general, I find that > Wikipedia does a good job of covering gay and transgender issues and seems > to have a healthy community of editors in those demographics. In fact I > wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of such editors on Wikipedia is > higher than in the population in general, but this is just a guess based on > anecdotal evidence. I would love to hear other people's impressions. > > Ryan Kaldari > > > On 5/9/12 12:57 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > >> Earlier today, I posted a thread on Reddit's AskTransgender group asking >> for feedback on how Wikipedia handles transgender issues, specifically BLP >> and pronoun issues. >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/**asktransgender/comments/tejwl/** >> is_wikipedia_handling_**transgender_identity_well/<http://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/tejwl/is_wikipedia_handling_transgender_identity_well/> >> >> Feel free to respond here or there. >> >> This followed discussions relating to the widely-reported announcement by >> Tom Gabel, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the punk band Against Me!, >> of their intention to transition, and also previous discussions I've had by >> email with a UK-based transgender non-profit. >> >> It almost feels like how we handle gender identity and transgender issues >> on-wiki is a nice little litmus test for the community's wider attitudes to >> inclusion (as well as handling of sensitive BLPs). >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/gendergap<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap> >
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