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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 WantedPages where there are links to articles that need writing. Please report any problems to: jonathan@lgbthistoryuk.org.

Upgraded to mediawiki-1.17.0 on 5 November 2011

New features

Two templates were added during August 2012:

• Template:Stub adds a stub message and a puts the article into Category:Stubs, which has recently been intrdouced 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 August 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 thousandth article on 25 September 2012. For the current number of articles see Special:Statistics.

We've now joined WikiIndex - see our page there at http://wikiindex.org/LGBT_History_UK. You'll see we've got a wikiFactor of 3, in other words there are at least 3 articles (as shown on Special:PopularPages) that have been viewed at least 3,000 times.

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.

Extensions

Cite Extension: the extension for adding refences (footnotes/citations) has been added. See example of use on the page "Capital Gay".
TitleBlackList: to help combat spam and vandalism, the extension for blocking titles has not been added.
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 has recently been added. 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.

Backups

The MySQL database needs to be backed up manually, and I try and do this whenever I can. The last time it was backed up was: 4/12/11

Events

During 2012 I recommend organising two trips
1) Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/apethorpe-hall/
2) Plas Newydd, Llanglloen http://www.denbighshire.gov.uk/en-gb/DNAP-7PFFQD

LAGNA Research Event for LGBT History Month This is an email I sent to Lesbian and Gay News Archives and Hall Carpenter, with LGNA’s reply.

Dear Bishopsgate Institute

I am involved with several LGBT initiatives, including the LGBT Volunteers Network, the National LGBT Sports Network, I am chair of the London 2018 Gay Games bid (an Olympic Park legacy project), founder of the London Raiders (the largest softball team in the world) and co-chair of my company’s LGBT staff affinity network.

I have recently started to put together the LGBT History Project:

http://www.LGBThistoryUK.org

an LGBT wikipedia specialising in British LGBT history. I am planning to launch this web site during LGBT history month next year.

I would like to ask you if you would consider hosting an event as part of LGBT History Month (February 2012), and in conjunction with the Hall Carpenter Archives.

The idea would be to hold a ‘research day’ where you could invite members of the public to come together to review your primary sources, and then write articles for the LGBT History Project wikipedia. You may want to invite a university lecturer to guide the research projects, or to give a talk on research or plagiarism.

Let me know what you think

many thanks
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

Good to hear from you and I hope you are well.

We would be very happy to host such an event. Perhaps it could begin with a talk and tour about LAGNA and then attendees could request cuttings and items that they were interested in to enable to put something together for the LGBT History Project Wikipedia. Perhaps a similar day could also be held at the Hall Carpenter Archives at LSE. Attendees could do one day there and one day with us. Let me know what you think.

All the best and I look forward to hearing from you,

Stefan

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