Resources

Useful links and resources for training

An Introduction to Wikipedia: A Free Online Course Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. But it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you answer these questions and truly get started, there’s a new online course you can follow at your own pace called An Introduction to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Training Guides Wikimedia Australia partnered with Franklin Women and The Leadership Film to present More Than A Day, 10 easy to follow videos to guide you through creating a Wikipedia account and how to edit your first Wikipedia article.

Navigating Copyright When contributing to Wikipedia, Wikimedia commons or Wikimedia platforms Australians must comply with Australian copyright laws as well as international laws.

GLAMR Training Program Wikimedia Australia has developed a special four-part training program for GLAMR organisations in our region. We can either offer this training to your staff or your can download the following resources and either undertake the training yourself or guide your team.

Become a Wikimedia Australia Facilitator Wikimedia Australia offers support and training to become an accredited Wikimedia Australia facilitator.

Six Fact-Checking Lessons for Kids This book was produced for the Co-Developing a New Approach to Media Literacy in the Attention Economy research project.

Using Wikidata

How to get started with Wikidata Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Launched in 2012, Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and others.

Useful links and resources for First Nations

My Experience as First Nations Wikipedian in Residence In 2023, Bianca Valentino undertook the role of First Nations Wikipedian in Residence at the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) in collaboration with Wikimedia Australia.

Wikimedia Australia and First Nations Metadata: ATSILIRN Protocols for Description and Access A discussion paper by Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan Sentance, and Lauren Booker, on how the Wikimedia movement could better support First Nations content, data, and contributors on Wikimedia platforms and beyond.

First Nations Resources A collection of resources around how to most culturally appropriately write about First Nations content on our platforms.

Resources for Higher Education Training

Using Wikipedia in Australian Higher Education Wikimedia Australia's partnerships with Australian higher education institutions has supported research into the use of Wikimedia platforms in the sector.

Resources for Researchers and Wikimedians in Residence

Publications Submissions and publications from Wikimedia Australia.

Applying for a Wikimedia in Residence Program Resources for Residencies