Earlier this yr, one of many largest fan wikis on the web, Star Wars useful resource hub Wookieepedia, discovered itself embroiled in a debate between web site admins pushing to make the wiki’s dealing with of LGBTQIA+ subjects and transgender individuals particularly extra inclusive, and retrograde directors who wouldn’t. The public furor result in unprecedented intervention by wiki community Fandom—an intervention that’s now codified as a part of the community’s tips.

As a part of wider initiatives for Pride Month on the firm, as we speak Fandom introduced network-wide updates to its insurance policies concerning LGBTQIA+ topics and materials categorized throughout its community of wikis—which, apart from Wookieepedia, contains assets such because the Marvel Cinematic Universe wiki, Star Trek fandom’s Memory Alpha and Memory Beta, wikis devoted to Marvel and DC comics, and many more.

“Fandom is committed to inclusivity and equity for all fans and I’m proud that these community guidelines showcase that commitment,” Fandom CEO Perkins Miller mentioned in an announcement launched to press. “We are a global company and it’s our responsibility to embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion to serve our fan communities, not just today or this month, but all year long. I know that even small actions, applied consistently, can have real impact and this is one step Fandom has taken in this vitally important area.”

The new guidelines, which additionally embody hyperlink outs to a plethora of queer-inclusive and trans assist assets and charities, vary from minor, sweeping caveats—be inclusive, don’t use queerness as a pejorative in dialogue, don’t deal with people as monoliths for a complete id—to particular insurance policies round pronoun utilization in dialogue and wiki content material. They additionally particularly spotlight the method of making redirects to keep away from (and express forbiddance of) the observe of “deadnaming” trans people—the act, deliberately or in any other case, of utilizing a previous id of an individual who at the moment goes by one other. A deadnaming debate over artist Robin Pronovost’s web page on Wookieepedia sparked the unique controversy on the web site earlier this yr, as reported by io9, which result in Fandom intervening to ascertain that the act of deadnaming violated the corporate’s phrases of service, and finally to the dismissal of two longrunning Wookieepedia volunteer directors, named “Darth Culator” and “Toprawa and Ralltiir,” banning them from all the Fandom community.

As nicely as the brand new tips—which go into impact as we speak throughout all of Fandom’s 250,000+ communities—the corporate can even be internet hosting a Pride-themed Twitch livestream on June 28, together with LGBTQIA+ content material creators from throughout its community to debate and discover queer illustration in common tradition.

Correction: A earlier model of this text misspelled Pronovost’s title as Provonost. It’s been up to date, and io9 regrets the error.

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