The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yourself as attending on Meta Wiki.

Timezones:

5:00 pm to 6:30pm (Perth) 6:30 pm to 8:00pm (Darwin) 7:00 pm to 8:30pm (Brisbane) 6:30 pm to 8:00pm (Adelaide) 7:00 pm to 8:30pm (Melbourne / Sydney / Canberra / Hobart)

Wikimedia Australia is a member of Open Access Australasia and excited to be sharing in this year's Open Access Week events on the theme 'It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity'. In keeping with the theme of Building Structural Equity we will be looking at, using open science to combat global challenges, openness through a First Nations lens, the benefits and barriers to OERs, what open means for different disciplines, accessibility, and non-technical communication, as well as hacking OA, shaking up research assessment and how different parts of the open knowledge ecosystem interacts.

Events will be held via Zoom each day to suit time zones from Australia’s west to New Zealand’s east.

Register for the events and you can save Open Access Australasia’s official Zoom backgrounds to use for the events.

Wikimedia Australia is a member of Open Access Australasia and excited to be sharing in this year's Open Access Week events on the theme 'Open for climate justice'. Events will be held online, and include a panel on Wikimedia collaborations for climate research knowledge sharing.

Beginning Tuesday 25 October, and running until Friday 28. This year's Open Access Week will end with a special discussion titled 'Wikimedia collaborations for climate research knowledge sharing'.

Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia platforms are a major source of open knowledge on climate change and environmental issues. The accuracy of this information is therefore highly impactful. Join us for a discussion of how teamwork self-organises within these projects and how research and outreach collaborations are formed with the the broader knowledge ecosystem.

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here.

The Zoom link is here.

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here.

Presentations

• Small wikis - Sam
• Web2Cit - Kerry

• Timezones: 4:00 pm to 5:30pm (Perth) / 5:30 pm to 7:00pm (Darwin) / 6:00 pm to 7:30pm (Brisbane) / 6:30 pm to 8:00pm (Adelaide) / 7:00 pm to 8:30pm (Melbourne / Sydney / Canberra)

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_13_July_2022

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Guest Presentation: Dr. Gianluca Demartini, Associate Professor in Data Science at the University of Queensland.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yourself as attending here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_12_July_2023

Timezones:

• Perth: 5:00 pm to 6:30pm
• Adelaide / Darwin: 6:30 pm to 8:00pm
• Hobart / Melbourne / Sydney / Brisbane / Canberra: 7:00 pm to 8:30pm

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months. Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_9_March_2022

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here.

• Timezones: 4:00 pm to 5:30pm (Perth) / 5:30 pm to 7:00pm (Darwin) / 6:00 pm to 7:30pm (Brisbane) / 6:30 pm to 8:00pm (Adelaide) / 7:00 pm to 8:30pm (Melbourne / Sydney / Canberra)

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months. Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_11_May_2022

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yours to the agenda here.

The Zoom link is here.

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is a seminar from special guests alternate months. Details coming soon!

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone! Add yours to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_9_November_2022

Agenda:

• Wikidata / National Archives of Australia project - Tim Sherratt
• Wikipedians in Australia - Where the bloody hell are they? - James Gaunt
• Open Discussion

• Timezones: 4:00 pm to 5:30pm (Perth) / 5:30 pm to 7:00pm (Darwin) / 6:00 pm to 7:30pm (Brisbane) / 6:30 pm to 8:00pm (Adelaide) / 7:00 pm to 8:30pm (Melbourne / Sydney / Canberra)

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yourself as attending here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_8_November_2023

Timezones:

• Perth: 4:00 pm to 5:30pm
• Darwin: 5:30 pm to 7:00pm
• Brisbane: 6:00 pm to 7:30pm
• Adelaide: 6:30 pm to 8:00pm
• Hobart / Melbourne / Sydney / Canberra: 7:00 pm to 8:30pm

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone! Add yours to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_14_September_2022

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone! Add yours to the agenda here. Zoom link here

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone!

Add yourself as attending here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_13_September_2023

Timezones:

• Perth: 5:00 pm to 6:30pm
• Adelaide / Darwin: 6:30 pm to 8:00pm
• Hobart / Melbourne / Sydney / Brisbane / Canberra: 7:00 pm to 8:30pm

The City of Sydney Library is hosting edit-a-thons to increase and improve content relevant to our diverse communities.

Highly decorated Paralympian and passionate advocate Sarah Stewart will speak about the importance of diverse voices in documenting Australian Paralympic history.

The editing will be led by Tony Naar, Greg Blood and Ross Mallet who manage the Australian Paralympic History Project. Wikipedia editors Toby Hudson and Caddie Brain will help participants improve articles about Paralympians and the Paralympic Games.

This event will be hosted online and tickets can be booked from the event page.

No experience is necessary to join the edit-a-thon. Participants are encouraged to set up a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop.

• Project page
• Suggested edits
• Event Dashboard

This Global Conversations event will bring Wikimedians together to discuss the findings from the Hubs Dialogue: a series of conversations facilitated by the Movement Strategy and Governance team designed to answer the question: What are the generally shared and context-specific needs among the Wikimedians exploring the hub concept?

Hubs is a name for organizational units in the Wikimedia movement supporting more than one volunteer community. They are one of the initiatives from Movement Strategy recommendations. The idea of Hubs responds to the desire to share power, moving more decision-making closer to the communities involved. They are also expected to bring greater efficiency when working within a region or a theme, compared to the current model centralized in the Wikimedia Foundation.

The aim of this conversation is to share the findings of the Dialogue with the Movement, ensure that they reflect Wikimedians’ lived experiences, and from this shared understanding, start discussing how the findings can be integrated into the Movement Charter drafting process.

What do we expect from participants? We will share the findings of the conversations held with groups that are working on establishing a Hub in their context and we would like participants to listen in, understand, and reflect on these findings.

A series of presentations at Wikimania.

Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges - Kirsten Thorpe and Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance

It has long been acknowledged that Wikipedia has a diversity problem, among its editors and the content they write. People are meeting up across the world to help remedy this imbalance and bias. These efforts often reveal significant tensions between Wikipedia's principles and other knowledge systems, like those of First Nations people around the world. Kirsten Thorpe, a Worimi researcher from the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research at the University of Technology Sydney, will join Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance, a Wiradjuri activist, librarian and essayist currently working at the Australian Museum, in a conversation about the opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations people.

Bringing Australian Archaeology From Fringe to Centre - Leia Corrie, Emilie Dotte-Saurot , Emily Grey, Sven Ouzman, and the UWA Archaeology Wiki Collective

Archaeology studies all of human history in all of its aspects and is fascinating to many people. Unfortunately, Archaeology also has a 'lunatic fringe' that promote unreliable and false information. The nature of a wiki means such views are easily disseminated. Recent work between UWA Archaeology and Wikimedia Australia has focused on correcting racist, sexist, and misleading archaeological entries. We are also identifying gaps - such as the role of female and BIPOC archaeologists. Finally, 2021 changes to the Australian school curriculum means there is a shortage of reliable archaeological information for both teachers and learners, which we will address by constructing our entries as lesson plans.

Who do we think we are? - Kelly Tall

What is the relationship between Wikipedia and the Order of Australia recipients? Who is represented and who isn’t?

In February 2021, researchers Heather Ford, Tamson Pietsch and Kelly Tall from UTS School of Communication published the results of a pilot study entitled: Producing distinction: Wikipedia and the Order of Australia. A visual essay.

The study was inspired by the work of Women in Red and the Australian Honour a Woman project which was founded in 2017 to improve gender equity by supporting nominations of women for the Order of Australia awards, highlighting structural barriers to inclusion. The Order of Australia is notorious for not recognising women at the same rate as men, but the researchers discovered that on Wikipedia, awardees at the Companions or Officer level (the highest Order awards) are represented in slightly higher numbers than men.

Thoughts on running Wiki Loves Earth in Australia - Margaret Donald

We attracted 182 entrants, 162 of whom were new to Wikipedia, and 1510 photographs were submitted with approximately 20% being ineligible for the competition. (The ineligibility rate remains a major concern.) Participants were encouraged to upload photos taken in previous years. Hence many competitors contributed photos illustrating multiple states and territories. Uploading photos is among the more difficult tasks in Wikipedia and the apparent requirement to categorise images and use "depicts" statements is an unrealistic task for most people. Thus a huge amount of "back room" work needed to be done by experienced Wikimedians to allow good photographs their chance to shine. Many worthwhile images were uploaded, with 138 so far having been used on 289 pages on 32 wikis, with 42,829 file views in June 2021.This talk aims to illustrate and discuss our successes and failures, and suggest ways forward.

Shape the future of Wikimedia Australia.

Wikimedia Australia is undertaking a new three-year strategic plan. And it needs your help! This December community meeting, we'll be joined by facilitator Patrick Moriarty to guide the conversation. We'll take you through our current ideas for our next strategic plan and seek feedback on your thoughts and vision for the next three years.

Followed by open community discussion.

As of 21 August 2023 only 19.64% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. Join the Superstars of STEM Wikipedia editing workshop.

This is a free event. Join us for an exciting and empowering event, the Superstars of STEM - Women in STEM Wikipedia edit-a-thons, to be held concurrently in Sydney, Melbourne (venue TBA) and online!

N.B. Please bring your own laptop for some workshopping. We have limited spaces so registration is mandatory.

We are fortunate to have noted Wikimedian Liam Wyatt visiting us from Italy and updates on Wikidata projects from our Sydney members. The State Library of NSW have generously provided a space for us to meet.

Short Talks

Wikicite/GLAM in Europe - Liam Wyatt, Program Manager for WikiCite (recently Europeana GLAMwiki Coordinator)

Wikidata Update - Toby Hudson, University of Sydney

Wikidata Projects - Geoff Barker, State Library of NSW

Wikimedia updates - Matt Moore, Wikimedia Australia

Wikidata Workshop

Focus on Australasian Legal Information Institute & State Library of NSW unpublished items

Wikimedia Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts present 'The Country Record - Australian Music on Wikipedia', a new initiative that aims to grow the low number of Wikipedia articles about Australian musicians, organisations and publications over the next six months.

In partnership with the Australian Country Music Association, meet online and learn to edit the Wikipedia pages of your favourite country artists as part of our edit-a-thon.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world written by an international community of volunteer editors. When you search something online, Wikipedia is often the top result, with information boxes on Google sourced from its pages.

No experience required! Just register to receive the link, sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance and then join the fun.

Let's work together to improve the visibility of Australian Country music!

A presentation for galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and other knowledge institutions who want to engage with the global Wikimedia movement. We will go through practical steps your organisation can take right away to work with the hundreds of thousands of volunteers creating content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. Attendees will take away a guide to copyright and licensing including sample copyright statements, boilerplate text for arranging a copyright release, and a sample author release form.

This talk is especially suitable for small organisations without a dedicated copyright officer or extra resources for engaging a Wikipedian in Residence.

If you are attending this session as part of professional development, please contact Wikimedia Australia following the event to be provided with a certificate of participation.

Contents of this talk:

Collection photos that are actually usable • creating a copyright and licensing policy and putting it on the website • why you should set up an external photostream • "reliable sources" and how to create your own • photographing your institution inside and out • photographing your people and the living treasures of your community • arranging open licenses for local publications and hosting PDFs on your website • engaging with the Wikimedia community • possible Wikimedia projects

About your presenter:

Mike Dickison did his PhD on giant flightless birds at Duke University, and was curator of Natural History at Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand, before receiving a one-year grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to be the New Zealand Wikipedian at Large 2018–2019. Since then he has worked as a freelance Wikipedia consultant and Wikipedian in Residence for Lincoln University, Development West Coast, the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand Opera, and Te Papa. He is vice-president of Wikimedia Aotearoa.

All illustrations © Mike Dickison CC BY

The Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) is commencing a new project to improve the presence of valuable policy and research material and coverage of important policy issues on Wikimedia platforms. It was successfully funded by the Wikimedia Foundation through the Alliance Fund.

APO is an open access evidence platform – making public policy research and resources accessible and useable. As a unique public good with a trusted reputation, we champion open access and evidence-informed decision-making. APO contributes to this vision through our mission to be the ‘go-to’ for policy and research by making material published by organisations openly accessible. APO plays a central role in Australia and New Zealand’s Free Knowledge Ecosystem and is striving for sustainability.

Brigid van Wanrooy, the Director of APO, will introduce the project, its current directions and opportunities to contribute.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94544898157

For maximum impact across our research and cultural practices, we should collaborate with our colleagues and students to edit Wikipedia and actively contribute to other open-source online resources. Wikipedia is the world’s leading platform for accessible commentary on history, art and visual culture. It is continuously undergoing revision, yet we are in the best position to lead these changes – especially for aspects of art history and visual culture from Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand. Developing assessment items in which students identify, research, edit and ethically enhance Wikipedia instills the values of public scholarship and critically engages with pressing issues. This is an important space for inclusion and decolonization, where new voices can contribute to global discourse. Building on the legacy of collaborative Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, Trove APIs, Facebook, and the work of the #KnowMyName initiative and the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA), this panel considers the impact of contributions to online open-source resources. How might your work be better represented in these spaces, and what can we do to measure or improve the impact of our online representation on continuously changing platforms?

Know My Name and Wikimedia Australia: A case study

In 2019 the National Gallery of Australia established an ongoing partnership with Wikimedia Australia in association with the Gallery’s gender equity initiative Know My Name. The partnership aims to address the under-representation of Australian women artists on Wikipedia as part of the Gallery’s strategy to increase understanding of the contributions of women and gender diverse artists. To date the partnership has included two Know My Name Wikipedia Edit-a-thons, volunteer training workshops, the establishment of the National Gallery Volunteer Wiki Club and staff information and training sessions. The Know My Name project has so far resulted in 200,000+ words being added to Wikipedia including the creation of 115 new pages on Australia women artists, 431 existing articles being edited, and 2,320 new references added. 176 volunteer editors have so far participated nationally and new and edited articles have been viewed 513,000+ times on Wikipedia. The partnership has made an internationally significant contribution as part of gender equity movements Art+Feminism and Women in Red. It also offers a best practice case study about how GLAM sector organisations can use collections and expertise to grow representation, inclusion and equity on the world’s biggest online knowledge platforms.

Presenters

Jessi England, National Gallery of Australia Caddie Brain, Wikimedia Australia Amanda Stojanov, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Monmouth University, New Jersey, USA Lisa Watt, Lecturer in Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University Elizabeth Elwell-Cook, Charles Sturt University and TAFE Western NSW

Wikimedia Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts present 'The Record - Australian Music on Wikipedia', a new initiative that aims to grow the low number of Wikipedia articles about Australian musicians, organisations and publications over the next six months.

In partnership with the Australian Music Centre, meet online and learn to edit the Wikipedia pages of your favourite art music artists.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world written by an international community of volunteer editors. When you search something online, Wikipedia is often the top result, with information boxes on Google sourced from its pages.

Guest speaker Kirsty Rivers from the Australia Council for the Arts will open the event, and training will be provided by Wikimedia Australia.

No experience required! Just register to receive the link, sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance and then join the fun.

Let's work together to improve the visibility of Australian Music!

Wikimedia Australia is proud to host this evening of presentations on how Wikipedia and sister projects like Wikimedia Commons are being used by culturally diverse communities from Australia and around the world.

Wikipedia is the 6th most popular website in Australia. When you search something online Wikipedia is often one of the top results. But who are the volunteers contributing to Wikipedia, and what are the difficulties they face as they try to share their cultural knowledge?

This session hopes to bring up some of these questions, and answer them by providing examples of the amazing work currently being done by so many volunteers. The Record: How culturally diverse communities are using Wikipedia will be moderated by Rhianna Patrick and will feature a presentation from Steve Bunbadgee Hodder Watt. Further presenters will be announced soon.

About our presenters

Rhianna Patrick is a Torres Strait Islander freelance journalist, broadcaster and audio content creator.

Steve Bunbadgee Hodder Watt is a Lardil man from Gununa (Mornington Island) is Digitisation Coordinator for First Nations Media Australia, and has worked predominantly in First Nations media for over 20 years.

Sophia Amore Coghini has worked on projects to increase Wikipedia editing knowledge about Pacific Island artists in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Olaniyan Ishola Olushola of Wikimedia Nigeria who are recording audiovisual of oral history of languages spoken in Nigeria as part of their Nigerian Language Oral History Documentation Project.

About Wikimedia Australia Wikimedia Australia formed in 2008. It is the Australian chapter of the international Wikimedia Foundation. As an independent, not-for-profit organisation and registered charity, we support our members, the broader community and partner organisations to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia platforms through events, training and partnerships.

About The Record Wikimedia Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts have partnered on 'The Record - Australian Music on Wikipedia' a project which aims to increase the visibility of Australian content on Wikipedia and make it easier for global audiences to discover great Australian music. The Record has run Wikipedia training events where volunteers created 50+ new pages about Australian music.

Illustration credit Rubii Red is a proud Lama Lama woman from Cape York, QLD, but has grown up and live in Narm (Melbourne, VIC) majority of her life. She’s an artist, Twitch streamer, aspiring videographer and an activist, who uses her art to speak about important issues to her and her community.

Wikimedia Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts present 'The Record - Australian Music on Wikipedia', a new initiative that aims to grow the low number of Wikipedia articles about Australian musicians, organisations and publications over the next six months.

In partnership with the Australian Music Vault, come and learn to edit the pages of your favourite artists.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world written by an international community of volunteer editors. When you search something online, Wikipedia is often the top result, with information boxes on Google sourced from its pages. Let's work together to improve the visibility of Australian Music.

No experience required! Just bring a laptop or device and sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance.

As a digital platform, Wikimedia projects play a powerful role in the information and media ecosystem, from providing breaking news coverage to data points in Google infoboxes. Wikimedia projects include various types of automation and contribute to the automation of information provided by other platforms and are also being impacted by the regulations attempting to control big tech. There are therefore many areas of overlap with ADM+S areas of interest which could provide a range of fascinating research projects or collaborations which this workshop hopes to foster.

Join us for a lunchtime seminar/workshop on researching Wikimedia as a Digital Platform. The session will include lightning talks of 5-10 minutes on current or future research projects, questions, ideas or issues followed by open discussion and input from colleagues and for developing new proposals or collaborations. Speakers may share a paper or concept at various stages of gestation.

Lunch will be provided.

This event is being hosted as a 2023 ADM+S Symposium Satellite event.

If you would like to provide a 5 minute lightning talk please email amanda.lawrence@rmit.edu.au with your name, organisation and a title by Monday 15 May 2023. Please indicate if you will participate in person (preferred) or online.

Speakers

Heather Ford, Tamson Pietch (TBC), Michael Falk (UTS) - Wikihistories Project

Bunty Avieson (Media and Communications University of Sydney) - ‘Wiki-what? The ontology of Wikipedia’.

Frances Di Lauro (University of Sydney) - Does Wikipedia have a role in education?

Amanda Lawrence (ADM+S, RMIT University) - Public policy, publishing and reliable sources on Wikipedia

Speaker to be confirmed (University of Canberra) - Wikipedia, misinformation and education

Join us for an ONLINE session on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, to amplify the voices of Australian women artists, designers and creators. This session will highlight Australian art galleries and museums and their collections of women artists.

If you plan to attend this session, please email your name and username to hello@womensartregister.org to let us know. This will help us to communicate before, during and after the event, and to track the work we get done on the day.

Facilitators will be on hand for both experienced and new Wikipedia editors. No experience is required though basic computer skills are recommended. Hosted by the Women's Art Register and Wikimedia Australia, and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Participation is FREE.

Zoom link for attendees: https://zoom.us/j/93254319547

More info to help you prepare is available on our Project Page: Project page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/WikiWednesday

The Australian Women in Religion Project is a collaborative initiative of the University of Divinity. The University is taking a lead role in coordinating an Australian contribution to the wider 1000 Women in Religion Project. This international project is a major initiative of the Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature and is supported by Atla (Collectors and Connectors in Religion and Theology) and the Women's Task Force of the Parliament of World Religions. The Project aims to raise up the unrecognised work of important women in religion and to help address the gender bias on platforms like Wikipedia. Only about 18% of biographical articles on Wikipedia are about women.

The University of Divinity project group has compiled a list of approximately 500 Women in Religion from both Australia and New Zealand and a Bibliography of Authoritative Sources that can be used when creating new Wikipedia pages (see below). These documents will be updated as the project progresses.

The WikiProject 1000 Women in Religion Project Page includes a list of women that is generated automatically from Wikidata. The list now includes women from Australian or New Zealand that are included in the 1000 Women in Religion Project. The list shows women with existing Wikipedia articles in English (blue) and those with Wikipedia articles still to-be-created (red). As the project progresses the links will change from red to blue.

The 1000 Women in Religion page also includes information about related project events and activities.

The University of Divinity's initial target is to create 100 new Wikipedia entries for Australian Women in Religion.

Email kerrie.burn@ctc.edu.au for Zoom details.

Join the Women in Religion crew as they kick of their Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza for International Women's Day.

Led by Kerrie Burn of the University of Divinity, the Australian Women in Religion Project team has been tirelessly collecting, sorting and uploading data, as well as editing and creating articles about Australian women. This is also the Australian contribution to the wider 1000 Women in Religion Project which aims to raise up the unrecognised work of important women in religion and to help address the gender bias on platforms like Wikipedia. Still today, only about 18% of biographical articles on Wikipedia are about women.

During the Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza we will focus on 3 groups of women:

• Women included on the Australian Dictionary of Biography without a Wikipedia page
• Women associated with the Movement for the Ordination of Women
• Women associated with the Women-Church journal

Lists of relevant subjects and associated resources will be provided prior to event, including suggested articles for creation and Wikipedia stub articles that require improvement.

As we look ahead to the edit-a-thon(s) you might like to take a look at the Wikipedia Article Guide and the AWR List available on this page. Please give some thought to women that you might like to write about. There are 576 women currently listed, with those shaded in blue already having a Wikipedia page.

No experience required. Wikipedia editing training provided as well as light refreshments. Beginners welcome!

More information about Australian Women in Religion Project

Join the Women in Religion crew for its final online follow-up session for their Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza for International Women's Day.

Led by Kerrie Burn of the University of Divinity, the Australian Women in Religion Project team has been tirelessly collecting, sorting and uploading data, as well as editing and creating articles about Australian women. This is also the Australian contribution to the wider 1000 Women in Religion Project which aims to raise up the unrecognised work of important women in religion and to help address the gender bias on platforms like Wikipedia. Still today, only about 18% of biographical articles on Wikipedia are about women.

During the Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza we will focus on 3 groups of women:

• Women included on the Australian Dictionary of Biography without a Wikipedia page
• Women associated with the Movement for the Ordination of Women
• Women associated with the Women-Church journal

Lists of relevant subjects and associated resources will be provided prior to event, including suggested articles for creation and Wikipedia stub articles that require improvement.

As we look ahead to the edit-a-thon(s) you might like to take a look at the Wikipedia Article Guide and the AWR List available on this page. Please give some thought to women that you might like to write about. There are 576 women currently listed, with those shaded in blue already having a Wikipedia page.

No experience required. Wikipedia editing training provided as well as light refreshments. Beginners welcome!

More information about Australian Women in Religion Project

Join the Women in Religion for a online follow-up session for their Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza for International Women's Day.

Led by Kerrie Burn of the University of Divinity, the Australian Women in Religion Project team has been tirelessly collecting, sorting and uploading data, as well as editing and creating articles about Australian women. This is also the Australian contribution to the wider 1000 Women in Religion Project which aims to raise up the unrecognised work of important women in religion and to help address the gender bias on platforms like Wikipedia. Still today, only about 18% of biographical articles on Wikipedia are about women.

During the Wiki-Week Editing Extravaganza we will focus on 3 groups of women:

• Women included on the Australian Dictionary of Biography without a Wikipedia page
• Women associated with the Movement for the Ordination of Women
• Women associated with the Women-Church journal

Lists of relevant subjects and associated resources will be provided prior to event, including suggested articles for creation and Wikipedia stub articles that require improvement.

As we look ahead to the edit-a-thon(s) you might like to take a look at the Wikipedia Article Guide and the AWR List available on this page. Please give some thought to women that you might like to write about. There are 576 women currently listed, with those shaded in blue already having a Wikipedia page.

No experience required. Wikipedia editing training provided as well as light refreshments. Beginners welcome!

More information about Australian Women in Religion Project

WikiCite: what exactly is it, how can I contribute and how could it change my editing?

WikiCite is a community of projects (and people, and events) working to build the corpus in Wikidata through ‘open citations’ of publications, and in particular, scholarly journal articles, that can then be used across Wikimedia platforms. Funded by the Sloan Foundation, it is now among the most popular projects in Wikidata.

For this month's community meeting, WikiCite’s Program Manager Liam Wyatt will be joining us online from Italy as well as Australian Wikipedian Margaret Donald, who will demonstrate how she uses WikiCite in both visual and source editor, with an occasional foray into Wikidata. Then Wikimedia Australia President Alex Lum will preview WikidataR, a package (software extension) for the R programming language.

Updates from Wiki Loves Earth and 1Lib1Ref to follow.

All welcome!

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

The event has been cancelled until further notice due to COVID-19 per notice posted by Katherine Maher.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Followed on the Friday (next day) by a Community meeting for the actual Wikipedia 20 celebrations!

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.

A casual gathering to talk about and work on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons). Everyone is welcome! You don’t have to have any experience; we’ll help you. There is huge scope for a wide range of interests: researchers, photographers, historians, illustrators, data analysts, coders, writers, and anyone else interested in the universe of free knowledge.

Followed on the Friday (next day) by a Community meeting for the actual Wikipedia 20 celebrations!

Bring a laptop. There’s good wifi, and free tea and coffee available.