Pride = Celebration + Public Education
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Get to know Wikipedia during Pride Month! How well are queer topics covered in the encyclopedia? Do we have well-sourced, neutral information in Norwegian and Sámi languages, and what knowledge gaps need to be filled?
Share your input
It’s been three years since Wikimedia Norge and many other organizations marked the 2022 Queer Cultural Year with ambitious projects — but what effect did it have on the body of knowledge on Wikipedia? This June, we’re taking stock of our efforts and are inviting Wikipedia editors and partners to help us conduct a general review.
What do we know about queer topics on Wikipedia? Is the content being maintained and further developed? What statistics can we highlight? Do we have easy access to quality sources? Is there solid scholarly collaboration when contributors write about topics that can easily be skewed or vandalized? Share your thoughts here.
Join the Pride edit-a-thon
Throughout June, we’re hosting a Pride editing competition on Wikipedia to improve and expand content related to queer topics. You can write in Bokmål, Nynorsk, Northern Sámi, or Inari Sámi. If you’re not keen on writing, you can contribute by adding images and videos to articles. There are also other tasks that help increase visibility of the content — both on Wikipedia and across the web — such as creating internal links and cleaning up categories. Quality assurance is, of course, essential, and there’s always a need to check and add sources.
Lists of Red Links from the 2022 Queer Cultural Year
Red links are Wikipedia pages that have not yet been written. Originally, these lists from 2022 contained 86 red links, and as of June 1, 2025, 54 still remain. Would you like to write some of these pages?
Priority List
Wiki99/LGBT+ is an initiative listing a basic set of articles that should exist about queer topics. Below are articles from the list that exist in English but are missing in:
As of June 3, 2025, 80 articles are missing in Bokmål, 115 in Nynorsk, 151 in Northern Sámi, and 146 in Inari Sámi. This presents a great opportunity to use the English articles as a starting point.
Video Interviews from Skeivt arkiv
In 2022, Skeivt arkiv and Wikimedia Norge collaborated to upload 139 excerpts of video interviews to Wikimedia Commons, the media repository that supplies Wikipedia with images and videos. In these videos, individuals (many of whom have Wikipedia biographies) share their experiences from queer organizations, meeting places, and political work, as well as significant historical events and cultural history. As of June 1, only five videos had been used on Wikipedia — for example, in the article about Jens Torstein Olsen and the Norwegian Association of 1948.
Happy Pride Month!
We hope you’ll join in both the celebration and the public education efforts!