# queer history needs an edit button

- Link: https://tacobout.online/2026/10/29/queer-history-needs-an-edit-button/
- Published: 2026-10-29T11:15:00-05:00
- Author: Hitch

![A hand picks up a Wiki Loves Pride sticker from a table of conference stickers
and snacks.](https://i0.wp.com/tacobout.online/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/queering-
wiki-pride-sticker-jack-walker.jpg?resize=980%2C653&ssl=1)

[Read Jack Walker’s report on LGBTQ+ Wikipedia editors at Them.](https://www.them.us/news/lgbtq-wikipedia-editor-conference-montreal)

Jack Walker’s report from Queering Wiki in Montreal follows the people doing the
less glamorous work of keeping queer history findable. Writing is only part of it:
contributors also translate, upload pictures and improve metadata.

That is the useful part of this story. An archive is not finished because somebody
put a rainbow on the homepage. It needs sources, maintenance and people who can 
notice what is missing.

The [conference’s own page](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Queering_Wiki_2026) 
lists skill-sharing and stronger LGBTQ+ representation among its goals. Worth reading
for the practical work behind the word visibility.

Images: Queering Wiki group photograph and Wiki Loves Pride sticker photograph by
Jack Walker/Wikimedia Commons, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/),
via [Them](https://www.them.us/news/lgbtq-wikipedia-editor-conference-montreal).
Displayed at reduced size.