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We ensure that LGBT+ people, communities and their cultures are represented in Wikimedia projects. We do this by supporting LGBT+ people and allies across the world safely to improve LGBT+ content, and to access and participate in Wikimedia projects and related Open Knowledge projects.

Five years from now, we envision

• our independent organisation to be globally recognized as the most important advocate for, and advisor on LGBT+ Open Knowledge and the people that create it;

• the Wikimedia Movement to be offering sustained programmes that assure queer safety, representation and sharing across Wikimedia projects and languages, as well as a framework of widely accepted standards and norms for queer content, and its creation from original sources; and

• a world in which access and contribution to free knowledge is equitable, inclusive and accepting of LGBT+ history and reality.

Safety

We emphasize the safety of our community, as we understand that queer people are still persecuted in many regions of the world. We do this by ensuring that there are always options to contribute anonymously, and that volunteers have access to tools, training and necessary support for their personal safety.

Visibility and voice

We believe that queer people and their knowledge should be seen on Wikimedia projects. We are committed to ensuring LGBT+ people have access to queer related information and facts about their lives, culture, health and politics in their own languages. We are advocates for ensuring that queer people have a voice in the Wikimedia movement.

Community

We are committed to building a welcoming community for every LGBT+ Wikimedian and allies. We do this by encouraging "do-ocracy", by providing appropriately tailored supports, and by leading the development of best LGBT+ practices, policies and learning with affiliates.

Respect

We promote and ensure respectful treatment of volunteers, employees and respectful ways of representing LGBTQ+ people

Joy

We believe that the process of creation, publication and providing access to knowledge is a joyful act. We help volunteers and readers enjoy and celebrate queer knowledge and culture.

Accountability and transparency

We believe in community-based governance for the Wikimedia projects. We comply with and assess our compliance with governance policies that assure transparency and equity in decision-making.

Ensure safe conditions and environments for LGBT+ contributors online and offline.

• Objective 1.1: By 2030 be a default partner within our wider communities on LGBT+ safe and friendly events, and produce some of these events

• Objective 1.2: Influence and produce guidelines and policies that improve safety of content and editors

• Objective 1.3: By 2030 deliver LGBT+ focused training for common understanding of safety practices, policies and methods.

• Objective 1.4: By 2035 ensure LGBT+ contributors for all Wikimedia projects refer to Wikimedia LGBT+ for confidential and quality advice and reliable support on safety.

Establish the conditions to increase, maintain, protect and diversify reliable LGBT+ content

• Objective 2.1: Encourage the creation of balanced, general LGBT+ content, including all areas of LGBTQ+ experience beyond topics of oppression and controversy.

• Objective 2.2: By 2029 establish methods to identify and protect/stabilize LGBT+ content that are high risk or frequently targeted.

• Objective 2.3: By 2029, have guidance for identifying and using credible and reliable sources to write and edit LGBT+ content across all language projects.

• Objective 2.4: By 2030 establish methods for influencing AI/LLM training to prioritize LGBTQ+ verifiable information and downgrade misinformation.

• Objective 2.5: By 2029 generate objective and sourced AI/LLM prompts to help develop key LGBTQ+ articles in more language Wikipedias.

Grow and diversify the LGBT+ community within Wikimedia and beyond

• Objective 3.1: By the end of 2027, the board more accurately reflects the LGBTQ+ editing community, as well as the needed skills to advance the organisation.

• Objective 3.2: By 2029, measurably increase impact and recognition outside of the Movement through active partnerships

• Objective 3.3: Increase the number of community members that actively engage in Wikimedia LGBT+ activities.

• Objective 3.4: By the end of 2029, Wikimedia LGBT+ will have engaged in active, impact oriented partnerships with movement projects and organizations for the purposes of achieving Goals 1 and 2.

Build an organization that has the financial resources and communication capacities needed to achieve the mission

• Objective 4.1: By 2030, source significant funding from outside the Wikimedia ecosystem.

• Objective 4.2: By 2029, conduct external communication with clarity, transparency and regularity

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