WikiQueer is Here
LGBT resources meet the world of wiki
Posted by Natalie Hope McDonald on 3/1/2012 at 11:14AM
http://blogs.phillymag.com/gphilly/2012/03/01/wikiqueer/ WikiQueer, an online resource for all things LGBT, celebrates it's inauguration this week after more than a year of soft launches. Now, the non-profit wiki project allows global LGBT communities to document and edit their own collective knowledge on LGBT topics – everything from history and political timelines to people and projects.
The Aequalitas Project, a pilot partner of this project, helps get WikiQueer out of its concept phase and onto the web as a non-profit, free-content encyclopedia and resource project based on the openly editable model we've all come to love (and sometimes hate – but only somtimes). What makes this wiki different from all the others out there right now is it's specifically for and by the LGBT community.
"I'd been developing the idea for a queer-specific wiki for a few years," says WikiQueer founder and lead administrator Gregory Varnum.
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Wiki goes queer with new online LBGT resource
Posted on 01 Mar 2012 at 11:24am
http://www.houstini.com/wiki-goes-queer-with-new-online-lbgt-resource-1091368.htmlYesterday, Wiki came out of the closet launching WikiQueer as a resource of LGBT topics, issues and people. The intent is for the global queer community to document its collective knowledge on the site. The project has been in the works since late 2010.
Read the official announcement after the jump.
Ann Arbor, MI and Washington, DC — February 29, 2012 — The Aequalitas Project has announced the public launch of WikiQueer, the nonprofit's LGBT wiki program. WikiQueer is a web-based, not for profit, free-content encyclopedia and resource project, based on an openly editable model, specifically for and by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and ally communities.
In a manner similar to Wikipedia, WikiQueer is written collaboratively by volunteers.
