Notables Diversity Project

Profile managers: David Randall [send private message] and Melanie Paul [send private message]

Welcome to the Notables Diversity Project! Formerly known as the Global Family Reunion Project, we are now a sub-project of the Notables Project.

Mission

Our primary goal in creating a project that focuses on diversity is to add notable figures from diverse backgrounds. We hope to ensure that individuals from all groups, and especially those who are often neglected in historical overviews, are included in the profiles that jointly make up our one world tree.

In short, our mission is to create and improve the profiles of notable women, people of color, LGBT+ people, and other under-represented groups.

What Is Diversity?

What do we mean when we speak of diversity? Recognizing and including profiles for people from all backgrounds and attempting to represent the many different aspects of being human. We also want to acknowledge those whose efforts have contributed to a greater acceptance of difference.

Diversity may refer to differences along the dimensions of one or more of the following spectrums of difference:

• age,
• sex,
• gender,
• sexual orientation,
• culture,
• skin color (aka "race," however unscientific the term),
• language,
• ethnicity,
• country of origin (probably not an issue among genealogists!),
• socioeconomic status (class),
• physical ability,
• physical appearance (not related to colo(u)r or ethnicity),
• neurodiversity (brain processing differences).
• political belief,
• religious belief,

or some other aspect of being human that we haven't thought to mention.

If you think of something we missed that we should have included, please help us update this list.

Standards

The Diversity Project follows the same basic standards as does the Notables project and Wikipedia, with the additional caveat that such a person has a clear connection to the issue of diversity.

Projects Currently on WikiTree

• 100 Great Black Britons, 2003.
• 100 Great Black Britons, 2020.

Ideas for Additional Projects

• List of female Nobel laureates
• List of female nominees for the Nobel Prize
• 100 Women chosen each year since 2013
• Profiles required for Barbados
• Profiles required for Jamaica
• 100 Great Black Britons 2003
• 100 Great Black Britons 2020
• Notable Black Britons