Know My Name

Making Women Count

19 February 2024. Keywords: Know My Name

In 2019, just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia were about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number was even lower.

Wikimedia Australia has partnered with the National Gallery of Australia since 2020 as part of its Know My Name gender equity campaign, to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women.

Each year in March, we have co-hosted a series of edit-a-thons with galleries and libraries around Australia on the weekend of International Women's day, also as part of Art+Feminism.

Coordinated by Caddie Brain and her team in each state, the first weekend in 2020 saw 125 (mostly first time editors) create 69 new articles about female creators. Across the 7 edit-a-thons, 757 references were added to Wikipedia, and participants edited 223 articles. Read the full story here.

Know My Name Regional Gallery Tour

Wikimedia Australia are partnering with the NGA again in 2024 and 2025 to support the Know My Name Regional touring exhibition. The exhibition will visit five regional towns with the theme “Making Women Count”.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery edit-a-thon highlights

10 Feb 2024 - See what we were able to achieve at the first stop on the exhibition and edit-a-thon tour with the Mornington Gallery event dashboard. We were also visited by Jan Randles, a Paralympic athletics competitor. We were able to add a photo to her Wikipedia page.

We would like to offer our sincerest thanks to our lovely hosts from the Gallery, Jane German (Public Programs Coordinator) and Danja Rmandic (Curator Exhibitions). We would also like to thank Pru Mitchell, one of our Wikimedia Australia members, for all of her help.

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  Entrance to the Know my Name exhibition at the NGA November 2020.
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  Alice Woods facilitating the Know My Name edit-a-thon at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
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  A group photo of some Mornington Peninsula Regional Galley editors.
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  Jane German and Dunja Rmandic, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
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  Pru Mitchell and Paralympic athletics competitor Jan Randles at the Know my Name event at Mornington Peninsula Regional Galley.

Know My Name Events

• Know My Name: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2025 — Saturday 15 March 2025
  Learn how to create and edit Wikipedia entries and help us increase the information about Australian women artists available on Wikipedia, the world’s largest and most popular research tool.
• Know My Name: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at Tweed Regional Gallery — Saturday 17 August 2024
  Editathon in partnership with the Tweed Regional Gallery and the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative.
• Know My Name NGA Wikipedia edit-a-thon — Saturday 16 March 2024
  Know My Name edit-athon: help tell a new story of Women in Australian art.
• Know My Name - Mornington Peninsula — Saturday 10 February 2024
  Know My Name edit-athon: Making women count.
• Know My Name: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2023 — Saturday 11 March 2023
  Learn how to create and edit Wikipedia entries and help us increase information about Australian women artists on the world’s largest and most popular research tool.

Related News

• Giving women_artists their rightful place in history, a feature article (2021)
• A celebration, a commitment, an edit-a-thon: Know My Name returns for 2022 (2022)
• Know My Name edit-a-thon at the National Gallery of Australia (2023)
• Know My Name 2025

Related links

• KnowMyName website, National Gallery of Australia
• Know My Name project page
• Join the Know My Name Facebook group
• Know My Name event dashboard
• Art+Feminism
• Women Wikipedia Design
• Photo gallery

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