Marriage Equality Wiki

[queerbychoice]

I've recently created a Marriage Equality Wiki, and I'd like to invite all of you to help get it started. I want to collect the personal stories of people around the world, telling how they've been personally affected by laws for or against same-sex marriage. You can add yourself to the lists of "Couples" and "Supporters" and create an individual page about yourself to talk about why same-sex marriage is important to you and how marriage laws have affected you personally. I created two templates called "Couples" and "Supporters" that give suggestions of things you might want to write about on your individual page, but you can also feel free to disregard the templates entirely. You can also upload pictures of yourselves or anything that you think might help move readers to support your cause.

The "Couples" page will list same-sex couples who either are legally married or want to be legally married. The "Supporters" page will list other people who support legal recognition of same-sex marriage (including queer people, straight people, single people, partnered people - anybody at all who's on our side). Both pages will link to each person's individual story, and with any luck, both groups will have some very moving stories to tell. If we all put some effort into telling our own stories, I think the wiki could become a valuable collaborative resource in future political battles worldwide.

The wiki is brand new right now, so if you see anything at all that you think should be changed or improved, I'd very much appreciate if you'd either edit and improve it yourself or let me know what you think should be done. Thank you!

Comments

[luinied.livejournal.com]

That does sound really awesome, and I should link it to people. But, if you have not already considered the problem of vandalism (both malicious and spammish), seriously, do so. I don't know what the right answers are, but I do know that even the most obscure and non-controversial wikis attract spammers at the very least.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I think I'm prepared to handle any vandalism that might arise. This is the second wiki I've created using Wiki Spot, which hosts about a hundred different wikis and provides several types of controls for vandalism. I've seen some spammish vandalism efforts on several of the other WikiSpot wikis, but every time I've seen it, someone else has always seen and fixed it before I got there - the same way it usually works on Wikipedia.

Please, please do link to it! No one but me has posted anything on it yet, and I'm a little concerned about how to get people to start adding pages about themselves.

[spiritofnow.livejournal.com]

Can international couples post too? ;-) Though in our case, the bigger issue at present is not recognition of same-sex marriage, but the decriminalization of homosexual relationships themselves. :S

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely! I'd love it if you posted! Writing about the need to decriminalize relationships is fine - legalizing marriage doesn't have to be your most immediate goal, but just a goal at some eventual point. :-)

[spiritofnow.livejournal.com]

OK, all this slipped my mind, but I just came across your LJ again today, and remembered I wanted to contribute to the Wiki. Sorry I'm so late!

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

No problem. I'm looking forward to seeing what you write!

[spiritofnow.livejournal.com]

P.S. This Wiki is a great idea.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!