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QW Turkey Poster

What is Queering Wikipedia?

QW, is the first LGBT focused conference series on Wikipedia. The conference consists of physical and online meetings that every country can join as they want to.

QW Turkish Node

We chose the 17th of May for the Turkish Node of QW. The event took place in Frankeştayn Kitabevi in Beyoğlu. It consisted of a physical meeting and participation in the first two hours of the seminar.

Event Program (May 17, Wednesday)

• 13.00: Walk-in
• 13.15: Presentations
• 14.30: Workshops and the Edit-a-thon
• 15.30: Discussion before the online meeting
• 16.00: Queering Wikipedia Online Meeting
• 18.00: Final Discussion
• 18.30: Closing

Our contributions

• Stonewall uprisings#Stonewall's relation to trans rights

• The page for the term "Medicalization" has been translated and information relating to LGBT medicalization were added in the page: Tıbbileştirme

Meeting Contents

Presentation about LGBT content on Wikipedia

Presentation about how to create equitable content

• The historical importance of the 17th of May was discussed.
• We talked about the inadequacies in LGBT content in Turkish Wikipedia and what can be done to improve it. You can see the presentation used for this purpose on the side.
• Contribution and translation processes were discussed. We discussed what should be considered in articles about LGBT individuals. We did an "Edit-a-thon". The slide for this is also on the side.
• The attitude towards LGBT individuals in Turkey and its connection with Wikipedia were discussed.
• Participation in the part of the online conference between 16:00-18:00 was made possible with the support of simultaneous Turkish translation.

Meeting Notes

• Wikiproject:LGBT (In Turkish) is inactive. We should take actions to make it active again and to organise the people who want to work on it.
• The "Medicalization" page had been translated to Turkish as "Making someone rely on medicine", we have seen that the sociological side of medicalization wasn't talked about enough. As a result, the Tıbbileştirme page was created and information (which was missing in the English Wikipedia as well) about the medicalization of LGBT identities was added.
• The importance of creating pages on many issues that were particularly concerning for the LGBT+ individuals in Turkey, such as information about the legal process of gender reaffirmation, was mentioned. There is a great need for this type of articles, especially due to the inadequacy of available resources in Turkish.
• The inadequacy of the rules to be considered in Wikipedia articles about LGBT+ individuals was discussed. The necessity of conducting a study by examining the guidelines used in other language Wikipedias on this issue was mentioned.
• We talked about what can be done for international Wikipedia activities that are going to be held in countries with a bad record on LGBT rights, such as Turkey. We talked about the need to discuss the measures that can be taken to ensure that such an experience is safe and inclusive for LGBT individuals.
• The participants have expressed interest in joining the Queering Wikipedia conferences in the future as well.

Images from the event