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Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on the LGBT History Project Wiki. 
Learn what tasks need to be done and what groups there are to join, and share news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia.

Please start entering any articles you feel able you can write or start, or go to [http://www.lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages WantedPages] where there are links to articles that need writing. Please report any problems to [mailto:jonathan@lgbthistoryuk.org jonathan@lgbthistoryuk.org] or [mailto:ross@foxearth.net ross@foxearth.net].

This wiki was created  in June 2011. It was upgraded to mediawiki-1.17.0 on 5 November 2011, and to mediawiki-1.21.2 on 30 October 2013.

==New features==
Two templates were added during August 2012:
*[[:Template:Stub]] adds a stub message and also puts the article into [[:Category:Stubs]], which has been introduced to list articles that have been started, but have scope for considerably more work.
*[[:Template:Disambig]] adds a disambiguation message and logo and puts the article into the [[:Category:Disambiguation pages]].

Some additional templates were added during September 2012, to facilitate the clickable maps of the various countries of the UK. These templates are based on templates used on Wikipedia.

==Statistics==
We added our [[Edinburgh|thousandth article]] on 25 September 2012, our [[Bristol Bisons RFC|1500th article]] on 3 April 2013 and our [[Edward Carpenter Community|2000th article]] on 7 August 2013. For the current number of articles see [[Special:Statistics]].

In October 2012 we joined [[WikiIndex]] - see our page there at http://wikiindex.org/LGBT_History_UK. You'll see we've got a wikiFactor of 6, in other words there are at least 6 articles (as shown on [[Special:PopularPages]]) that have been viewed at least 6,000 times, and our status has been independently upgraded to "vibrant" (the top category). We also now have a [[WikiNode]] - a way of linking to other "neighbour" Wikis. We've also joined the [[LGBT Free Media Collective]], and have started contributing photographs to [[Wikimedia Commons]] as part of that project - see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_LGBT_UK_History_Project.

On 17 July 2013 we passed '''a million page views'''. For the current total see [[Special:Statistics]].

==Geographical coverage==

We now have articles for:

*all 71 [[:Category:Cities|cities]] in the UK (including 2 [[:Category:Former cities|former cities]])
*every town with a population over 100,000<ref>[[LGBT_History_UK_talk:Community_portal]]</ref>
*every town in the UK that had a [[CHE group]]
*[[England]]:
**all 9 [[English Regions]], each with a map showing counties and districts
**every county (shire counties, [[ceremonial counties]], metropolitan counties, plus some [[:Category:Former English counties|former counties]]); every ceremonial county containing more than one local government district or unitary authority now has a map (completed 25 March 2013).
**every [[London Borough]]
**every [[unitary authority]] (completed 10 March 2013)
**every [[metropolitan borough]] (completed 12 March 2013)
**local government districts: complete coverage for the [[North East]], [[North West]], [[Yorkshire and the Humber]], [[West Midlands region|West Midlands]], [[South West]] and [[London]]; many more to be created for [[East Midlands]], [[East of England]], and [[South East]].
**a selection of localities, towns, villages, etc
*[[Scotland]]:
**all 12 [[:Category:Scottish regions|former regions]]
**all 32 current [[Scotland#Local government|local government areas]]
*[[Wales]]:
**all 8 [[preserved county|preserved counties]] 
**all 22 current [[Wales#Local government|local government areas]]
*[[Northern Ireland]]:
**every historic county (the "[[Northern Ireland#The six counties|six counties]]")
**all [[:Category:Northern Ireland Post-1973 districts|26  current local government districts]]
**all [[Northern Ireland#New council areas|11 new districts to be introduced in 2015]].
*the [[Isle of Man]]
*the [[Bailiwick of Jersey]]
*the [[Bailiwick of Guernsey]] (including [[Alderney]] and [[Sark]])

Wherever possible, the article about each place includes at least some information about LGBT connections. However there are a small number of [[:Category:Districts with no LGBT History|Districts with no LGBT History]]. Assistance with finding information about these would be very welcome.

==Archiving==
This project has been selected for archiving by the [[UK Web Archive]] - see http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/66158869 - the first snapshot dated 22 October 2012 has now appeared on the UKWA site and further snapshots will appear from time to time. We're also getting picked up by the [[Internet Archive]] which has captured snapshots at odd times since November 2011.

==Current projects==

*Create articles for all Consortium members where they don't exist, and add [[:Category:Consortium members]] to all the members. ''Complete as of 5 August 2013.''

*Create articles for people listed in previous Pink etc lists (and ensure that the appropriate category (with number) is added to the article:
**[[:Talk:Pink List 2010]]
**[[Pink List 2011]]: ''complete''.
**[[Pink List 2012]]: ''complete''.
**[[Talk:Pink List 2013]]
**[[Pride Power List 2011]]
**[[:Category:World Pride Power List 2012]] (UK people only): ''complete''.
**[[:Category:World Pride Power List 2013]] (UK people only): ''Completed 14 August 2013.''

*Create articles for all notable speakers in the [[List of speakers at SLG meetings]]. ''Ongoing; note that there are questions about the notability of a number of the speakers.''

*Add images for all articles where possible. ''Ongoing: done for all [[:Category:Consortium members]] as far as Page 5 of the Consortium Directory website.''

*Create articles for the subjects listed in [[LGBT History UK:Articles needed]].

==Ongoing tasks==

The following things need to be checked on a regular basis:

*Uncategorised pages: every article should belong to at least one category; in turn, each category (except [[:Category:Main categories]]) should belong to at least one other category.
*Dead-end pages and Orphaned pages: these can never be eliminated altogether, but should be kept to a minimum &ndash; for instance to under 50 pages each so they can all be viewed on the first page of the listing
*language expressing a particular point of view: "we", "us", "sadly", "fortunately",  ... Articles containing such expressions are likely to need more thorough reviewing, not just removing the words in question.
*language that will date: "this year", "last year", "recently", "currently", ...
*articles lacking illustrations (there are lots of these) &ndash; see [[LGBT History UK:Photographs]].

== Extensions ==

'''Cite Extension''':  the extension for adding refences (footnotes/citations) has been added. See example of use on the page "Capital Gay".<br>
'''TitleBlackList''': to help combat spam and vandalism, the extension for blocking titles has not been added.<br>
'''CheckUser''': I installed this – but don’t think this has taken.

Please email me to let me know what extensions you would like installed.
And also any ideas to prevent spam.

== Timeline ==

The [[Timeline of UK LGBT History]] was added in October 2011. The aim is to have entries for all the most significant events in UK LGBT History from the earliest times. Each entry should include a link to the article which deals with the event or person in more detail. For earlier centuries, each article should ideally have an entry in the Timeline, but we may have to be a bit more selective from say 1960 onwards.

==Publicity==

The Wiki had its official launch at the LGBT History Month pre-launch at The Oval, 21 November 2011, and [[LGBT History UK:LMA Conference 2012‎|a stall]] at the [[London Metropolitan Archives]] Conference, 16 February 2013.

Our own article about the project, listing references in external sources, is at [[LGBT History Project]]. Our Wiki now has an article on Wikipedia,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Project</ref>, and is included in Wikipedia's List of Wikis.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis</ref>

== Backups ==
The MySQL database is being backed up regularly.

==References==
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[[Category:LGBT History Project]]