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This page has tools for finding, assessing, and improving articles within the scope of WP:LGBT.

Things you can do

A lot of people join the project and want to help, but don't really know how. Here's a list of tasks that either need regular attention or fulfill the goals of our project:

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Some other ways to help out:

Submit an article to Jumpaclass and see how much you can improve it in seven days.
Submit newly created articles to WP:DYK on their authors' behalf.
Check out the category of LGBT studies redlink lists
Add to our list of resources.
Work on our list of Core Topics - we are compiling core articles from which we can create some kind of publication.
To propose new major tasks or task forces, feel free to post at the project talk page.

Assessment

LGBTQ+ studies pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	103
FL	38
GA	607
B	1,859
C	5,376
Start	12,637
Stub	5,103
List	679
Category	7,482
Disambig	31
File	309
Portal	37
Project	81
Redirect	1,959
Template	383
NA	607
Assessed	37,291
Unassessed	16
Total	37,307
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 122,167	Ω = 4.75

One of the main tasks of the LGBT WikiProject is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's LGBT articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.

The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{LGBTProject}} template banner; this causes the articles to be placed into the appropriate sub-categories of Category:LGBT articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.

To find out more, see the /Assessment page.

Community department

The Community Department of the LGBT WikiProject is a centralised place to develop ways of fostering a sense of community and belonging in all our members, and to recruit more people into our community. Editors who are happy and have support when they need it are more likely to work harder at improving articles than if they feel no-one cares.

To achieve this, we currently have:

A successful recruiting program to headhunt helpful contributors to the Wikipedia.
A welcome template to inform new members of aspects of the WikiProject and where they can go for help.
A newsletter to keep members up to date with all the latest news from the WikiProject
A quilt in which every member has their own patch to place whatever they want.

Any other ideas are welcome! Please propose them on the main talkpage.

As awareness of us grows, WikiProject LGBT studies has been featured in an increasing number of external sources; a list of these is maintained here. There is also a Press kit for anyone interested in drumming up some publicity (or just showing off).

Jumpaclass

Jumpaclass is a fun semi-competition that the LGBT WikiProject runs to improve the quality of lower-quality articles. There are many processes for higher quality articles, such as Peer review and FAC, but many stubs and start rated articles languish unedited for lack of interest. Jumpaclass is a unique attempt to correct that.

To enter, find an article you would like to improve from the list of assessed LGBT articles: you can choose Stub, Start, or B class articles. You then have seven days to improve the article. If within a week, you "jump" an article one or more assessment classes, you win points that are noted on a leadership board. Check Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Jumpaclass for all the details. Challenge a friend to go "head to head" with you and see who can jump their article the furthest!

Peer review

The LGBT WikiProject peer review articles on request. This is to encourage better articles by having contributors who may not have worked on articles to examine them and provide ideas for further improvement. The process is highly flexible and can deal with articles of any quality though requesting reviews on very short articles may not be productive as there is little for readers to comment on. This process is not an academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and articles that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other.

To learn more about our peer review system, see Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies/Peer review.

Watchlist

The WikiProject maintains two watchlists: one for controversial LGBT articles, one for all articles tagged as within our scope.

The main Watchlist is here. Anyone who comes across contentious or highly vandalised article is welcome to add to it. The Watchall list may be found here. It lists every article tagged by us, and may also be helpful if a normal alphabetical list is needed. It is updated automatically by bot, so manual changes are not required.

The {{User WikiProject LGBT studies}} member userbox (example below) contains links to both watchlists, as well as a link to all changes on article talk pages tagged by this project.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies.

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Articles

New articles related to LGBT

For new articles with LGBT keywords, please see User:AlexNewArtBot/LGBTSearchResult.

Articles newly tagged as LGBT

For articles newly project-tagged, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/LGBT articles by quality log. Newly-tagged articles are automatically included as part of each day's section, under the "Assessed" subheading.