pure freedom of #HashTags (“Aide:Catégorie,” 2020). e category that provides a portrait of Québec specific LGBTQ+ articles in WikipédiaFR is the Catégorie:LGBT au Québec, a subcategory of Catégorie:LGBT au Canada, which is also a subcategory of Catégorie:LGBT par pays (translation: LGBT by country). The category system, much like our library classification systems, functions in an arborescence hierarchy.
While exploring the Catégorie:LGBT par pays, it was discovered that many of the Québécois LGBTQ+ community’s cultural icons, places, and historical events were absent from the Catégorie:LGBT au Québec. This content gap was addressed through the professional expertise of the author’s role as a librarian, allowing him to leverage his library’s collections, and those of others, to contribute to Wikipedia and develop relationships with the LGBTQ+ community of Montréal, and more largely, Québec.
Wikipédia et la communauté LGBTQ: visible et vivante
Five contribution activities were organized as a next step to addressing the Québécois LGBTQ+ gap in WikipédiaFR. The series was entitled “Wikipédia et la communauté LGBTQ+: visible et vivante” (translation: Wikipedia and the LGBTQ+ Community: Visible and Vibrant) and ran from October 2017 to May 2018. This was made possible thanks to a partnership between la Bibliothèque à livres ouverts du Centre communautaire LGBTQ+ de Montréal (translation: The Open Book Library of the LGBTQ+ Community Centre of Montréal), le Café des savoirs libres (translation: e Free Knowledge Café), and Wikimedia Canada. The goal of these activities was to empower the Québec LGBTQ+ community to write about its culture, history, artists, and public gures in the WikipédiaFR project. This was done by using the LGBTQ+ community center’s position in the LGBTQ+ community, along with its library’s resources, the resources of other libraries, and the expertise of librarians and Wikipedia volunteers. These activities provided an opportunity for seasoned and perspective Wikipedians to meet notable Québécois LGBTQ+ artists and authors and to learn
