u/didyousayboop

Context: Fandom recently decided to deplatform Gender Wiki due to it "positioning everything as a gender identity", including Windows XP and the Amogus meme, as well as "seriously problematic pages such as those related to violence and self-harm" and "genders related to criminal actions". Gender Wiki hosts pages such as Alcoholicgender, a gender based on alcoholism, and Drunkorexgender, a gender based on anorexia and binge drinking, in addition to numerous pages about blood, gore, bones, and death. The admins of Gender Wiki sought to migrate it to another wiki host, Miraheze, but Miraheze denied their application.

How do you have a wiki that attempts to catalogue diverse and esoteric gender identities while ensuring the wiki stays high-quality and avoids harmful content? In my mind, you need to set editorial standards. Here's what I'd propose:

1. A population threshold. Gender Census is a great resource. There is a handy spreadsheet that lists how many respondents identified with a certain identity term. My rule would be: a gender identity is only eligible for inclusion in the wiki if at least 100 respondents chose it in a given year and at least 0.2% of respondents chose it in a given year. (This helps keeps things somewhat constant even if response volume changes.) This isn't a perfect filter, but it's a good start. You could adjust the threshold up by as much as 100% (to 200 respondents and 0.4% of respondents) or down by as much as 50% (to 50 respondents and 0.1% of respondents) and I think it would still make sense.
2. High-quality sourcing. A wiki isn't just about survey data; using reliable sources is even more important. Wikipedia has a useful list of sources its editors consider reliable (and unreliable). My rule would be: a wiki article on a given gender identity can only exist if it cites at least 2 relevant and high-quality sources about that gender identity from two different sources recognized as generally reliable on Wikipedia's list. This is a relaxed requirement that would be easy to meet for most of the gender identities that reach the population threshold in the Gender Census.
3. Some explicit rules against harmful content. My rule would be: an explicit prohibition of wiki entries on gender identities relating to violence, crimes, blood, gore, death, bones, body horror, addiction, drug or alcohol use, eating disorders, suicide, abuse, trauma, anxiety, depression, severe mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, political extremism, religious extremism, specific named public figures, or specific named figures (such as deities or prophets) in religions. (I tried to think of everything, but probably missed a few things.)
4. Some explicit rules against meme/joke/troll content. My rule would be: nothing relating to memes, jokes, pop culture, popular media, video games, movies, TV shows, anime, fictional characters, software, apps, recent trends or fads (like "6-7"), or anything trademarked or copyrighted.

These 4 rules are pretty simple, pretty easy to follow, and would still allow for a diverse, inclusive wiki of many gender identities, including obscure and esoteric ones. What these rules would hopefully accomplish is cutting out the bottom 90% of low-quality, low-effort, possibly even bad faith wiki entries while allowing almost everything of value to remain.