Bridging LGBT+ Content Gaps Across Wikipedia Language Editions

In the past several years, Wikimedia Movement has become more aware of lack representation specific communities, that is, content gaps. Next to geographical and gender-related initiatives, LGBT+ community organized create encompassing (among other topics) biographies, events, culture. this paper, we present a computational approach collecting analyzing articles. We selected 14 Wikipedia language editions study coverage in general, its visibility list Featured Articles, overlap with local editions. Results show considerable part potentially related exists across editions; however, relation is not evident each edition. sense, closing gap about creating articles making connection topic visible already existing also analyze frequency biographies persons non-heterosexual sexual orientations. find even though they represent only small share all are bit frequent among Articles. When taking into account different languages, English context celebrities most visible. While edition's context, it tends be less contextualized than entire This indicates possibility growing edition by representing immediate context. propose dashboard tool relevant start bridging Finally, conclude presenting recommendations for next steps amongst communities fill some these