The ESEAP Hub meet monthly. Meetings are held online. If you would like an invitation, please contact the ESEAP Core Team: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub#Contact

The Wikimedia East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP) is a regional collaborative composed of nationalities & Wikimedia affiliates of Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Membership also includes nationalities and informal communities of Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Timor Leste and Pacific island nations FS Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

The ESEAP Hub is a platform to encourage communities in the region to share their experiences and ideas, and to find collaboration opportunities with other communities in the region. The Hub will also encourage communities to publish news and reports from their communities to this platform which will be integrated into periodic newsletters to help build mutual understanding. This portal will also serve as a gateway to better communicate with the international community.

Please also consider joining the ESEAP mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/eseap.lists.wikimedia.org/

The ESEAP Hub meet monthly. Meetings are held online. If you would like an invitation, please contact the ESEAP Core Team: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub#Contact

The Wikimedia East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP) is a regional collaborative composed of nationalities & Wikimedia affiliates of Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Membership also includes nationalities and informal communities of Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Timor Leste and Pacific island nations FS Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

The ESEAP Hub is a platform to encourage communities in the region to share their experiences and ideas, and to find collaboration opportunities with other communities in the region. The Hub will also encourage communities to publish news and reports from their communities to this platform which will be integrated into periodic newsletters to help build mutual understanding. This portal will also serve as a gateway to better communicate with the international community.

Please also consider joining the ESEAP mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/eseap.lists.wikimedia.org/

The ESEAP Hub meet monthly. Meetings are held online. If you would like an invitation, please contact the ESEAP Core Team: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub#Contact

The Wikimedia East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP) is a regional collaborative composed of nationalities & Wikimedia affiliates of Indonesia, Taiwan, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Membership also includes nationalities and informal communities of Brunei, Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Timor Leste and Pacific island nations FS Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

The ESEAP Hub is a platform to encourage communities in the region to share their experiences and ideas, and to find collaboration opportunities with other communities in the region. The Hub will also encourage communities to publish news and reports from their communities to this platform which will be integrated into periodic newsletters to help build mutual understanding. This portal will also serve as a gateway to better communicate with the international community.

Please also consider joining the ESEAP mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/eseap.lists.wikimedia.org/

The 14th ESEAP meeting will discuss:

• 1. Updates to the Universal Code of Conduct (Enforcement draft guidelines review and Roundtable discussions)
• 2. WMF Grants process for ESEAP region and introducing the new WMF's Program Officer for ESEAP
• 3. WIKISOURCE Workshop (Basics & Best Practices from the Indic Community)

For Dr Sam Bowker, creating a Wikipedia on decorative Egyptian tentmaking changed his life. His research for the page led to a series of peer-reviewed publications and exhibitions, and ultimately grew into a project that was recognised by the ARC for research impact in 2018.

This February community meeting, we will hear about his collaborative work with the Historians of Islamic Art Association on initiatives for Wikipedia editing as a teaching strategy that has resulted in new pages, expanded stubs, and improved existing sites for Islamic art. Dr Bowker is the Sub Dean Graduate Studies (Faculty of Arts & Education) and a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Charles Sturt University.

This presentation will be followed by open discussion from the community. Add anything you wish to discuss to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_9_February_2022#Agenda

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, it’s the 6th most visited website on the internet. Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

It has long been acknowledged that there is a lack of diversity among contributors.

People are meeting up across the world to help remedy the imbalance and bias in the diversity of voices on Wikipedia. The City of Sydney Library has joined this movement, hosting edit-a-thons to increase and improve content relevant to our diverse communities.

Everyone is welcome to join our online edit-a-thon. It will be led by Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance, and experienced Wikipedia editors Toby Hudson and Caddie Brain. Kirsten’s professional and research interests relate to Indigenous self-determination in libraries and archives. Nathan works to ensure that the cultural and historical narratives conveyed by memory institutions are being told and controlled by First Nations people. With their help, participants will focus on improving articles of importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on Wikipedia.

No experience is necessary to join the edit-a-thon. Bring your own laptop or tablet and connect to our free wi-fi or use one of our devices. (A limited number of library devices will be available for use at the event).

Participants are encouraged to set up a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop.

Event Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/City_of_Sydney/First_Nations_Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_(When)/home

It's back!! We are thrilled to announce that our second Franklin Women Edit-a-thon will be held on Thursday 7th April 2022.

Register here!

Did you know that there is a serious gender bias on Wikipedia, one of the world’s most-visited websites? Only 19% of the people profiled on Wikipedia are women. This means that many talented women (and their work) are not getting the recognition they deserve, as well as critically skewing perceptions about the contributions that women make to society.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thons are a wonderful (and fun!) way to combat this bias and make the internet just that little bit better.

Franklin Women is excited to be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on World Health Day, Thursday 7th April, to increase the online representation of women working in health and medical research.

You don’t need any experience to participate as we will provide all the training you need and several experienced Wikipedians will be there to help you on the day. Editing Wikipedia might sound daunting but the platform is designed so that anyone can contribute, and you can do this in many different ways – from improving the quality of existing articles to adding a whole new page, it all makes a difference!

Geelong’s musicians are missing from Wikipedia. As part of Surrounds Sound, learn to edit Wikipedia and help write the Australian music record.

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 bring a laptop or device and sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance.

This edit-a-thon is presented by Surround Sounds, Australian Music Vault and Wikimedia Australia with founding partner Australia Council for the Arts. It forms part 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.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet.

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors. It has long been acknowledged that there is a lack of diversity among contributors.

People are meeting up across the world to help grow the diversity of voices on platforms like Wikidata and Wikipedia.

For History Week NSW The City of Sydney Library has joined this movement in partnership with Wikimedia Australia to host an edit-a-thon that increase and improve content relevant to our diverse Sydney communities.

No experience needed.

Just sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance and bring along your laptop and connect to the library’s free wifi!

Facilitators

Toby Hudson is an Associate Professor, and School of Chemistry Associate Head of School (Education) at the University of Sydney. His research interests span materials chemistry simulation, search and optimisation, and educational technology. He has been involved in Wikimedia projects since 2004, especially Commons, Wikidata, and the English Wikipedia.

Annie Reynolds has been editing Wikipedia since 2014. Although her focus is on writing biographies of women, she also enjoys adding info about literary prizes and new books by Australian authors and anything else newsworthy that she discovers online.

Image: Burning of the Garden Palace, Sydney, September 22 1882, Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, October 25,1882, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/fire

Whether you are a STEMM (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine) expert, teacher, librarian, student or enthusiast, come along to learn the basics of editing Wikipedia and how to use Wikipedia as a tool to communicate your work and help keep the STEMM information on Wikipedia as accurate as possible.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, one of the top most visited website on the internet. Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors. No experience is necessary. Just sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance and bring along your laptop. Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Inspiring_SA/Inspiring_SA_-_Wikimedia_and_STEMM_(Saturday_22_Oct_2022)

Whether you are a STEMM (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine) expert, student or enthusiast, come along to learn the basics of editing Wikipedia and how to use Wikipedia as a tool to communicate your work and help keep the STEMM information on Wikipedia as accurate as possible.

Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world. Learn how project like Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, are helping share information with the world.

The workshop will be followed by informal drinks and networking.

Please sign up for a Wikipedia account in advance and bring along your laptop.

Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Inspiring_SA/Inspiring_SA_-_Wikimedia_and_STEMM_(Friday_21_Oct_2022)

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world. You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page. No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world. You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page. No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world. You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page. No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world. You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page. No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Wednesday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Thursday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Thursday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Thursday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Thursday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Thursday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia and the 6th most visited website on the internet!

Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

In this one hour workshop, staff from Wikimedia Australia will show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it is so important, so you can join a global movement of contributors from around the world.

You'll learn how to edit a Wikipedia page, add references, add an image, and create your User Page.

No experience is necessary, just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

Workshops will be held the first Thursday of the month, and are followed by an open drop-in session where anyone can ask questions no matter how big or small.

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.

Learn what Wikidata is, explore key concepts and vocabulary, how it relates to other Wikimedia projects and see what makes it so powerful.

No experience required!

This session is offered as part of the Wikimedia Australia Wikidata Fellowships, grants of $1000 (AUD) to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. You will be matched with a Wikidatatician who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support.

Read more here about the Fellowship program here!

The Zoom link is here.

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.

Learn what Wikidata is, explore key concepts and vocabulary, how it relates to other Wikimedia projects and see what makes it so powerful.

No experience required!

This session is offered as part of the Wikimedia Australia Wikidata Fellowships, grants of $1000 (AUD) to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. You will be matched with a Wikidatatician who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support.

Read more here: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Fellowships#Introduction_to_Wikidata_Sessions

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.

Learn what Wikidata is, explore key concepts and vocabulary, how it relates to other Wikimedia projects and see what makes it so powerful.

No experience required!

This session is offered as part of the Wikimedia Australia Wikidata Fellowships, grants of $1000 (AUD) to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. You will be matched with a Wikidatatician who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support.

Read more here.

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.

Learn what Wikidata is, explore key concepts and vocabulary, how it relates to other Wikimedia projects and see what makes it so powerful.

No experience required!

Bookings through Eventbrite

This session is offered as part of the Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Wikidata Fellowships and will be hosted by Alex Lum from Wikimedia Australia.

You are invited to apply for a grant of $1000 (AUD or NZD) to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. Successful applicants will be matched with a Wikidatatician who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support.

Read more here about the Fellowship program here!

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.

Learn what Wikidata is, explore key concepts and vocabulary, how it relates to other Wikimedia projects and see what makes it so powerful.

No experience required!

Bookings through Eventbrite

This session is offered as part of the Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Wikidata Fellowships and will be hosted by Alex Lum from Wikimedia Australia.

You are invited to apply for a grant of $1000 (AUD or NZD) to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. Successful applicants will be matched with a Wikidatatician who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support.

Read more here about the Fellowship program here!

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.

Learn what Wikidata is, explore key concepts and vocabulary, how it relates to other Wikimedia projects and see what makes it so powerful.

No experience required!

Bookings through Eventbrite

This session is offered as part of the Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Wikidata Fellowships and will be hosted by Mike Dickison from New Zealand.

You are invited to apply for a grant of $1000 (AUD or NZD) to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. Successful applicants will be matched with a Wikidatatician who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support.

Read more here about the Fellowship program here!

Join Wikimedia Australia, The National Gallery of Australia and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in Victoria for a Know My Name edit-a-thon - Making women count.

The Know My Name touring exhibition makes a stop at the Mornington Peninsula from 25 Nov 2023 – 18 Feb 2024, to tell a new story of Australian art.

The edit-a-thon will take place on Saturday 10 February 2024 in the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, surrounded by over 60 works by First Nations and Australian women artists.

Book online now.

Just 18% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower.

Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia as part of the Know My Name initiative to enhance understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women.

Become part of the Wikipedia community of volunteers who collaboratively create and maintain the world’s largest and most popular research tools. On the weekend of International Women's Day, Wikimedia Australia’s Caddie Brain and the Gallery’s Research Library staff are holding an interactive four-hour workshop where you can learn to edit and make new entries to Wikipedia. You will have the opportunity to create a new page on a selected Australian woman artist.

Places are limited so register here: https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/wikipedia-edit-thon/

Learn how to create and edit Wikipedia entries and help us increase information about women artists on the world’s largest and most popular research tool.

Just over 19% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower.

Join Alice Woods, Education and Projects Officer, Wikimedia Australia and the National Gallery’s Research Library staff for a free interactive workshop where you will have the opportunity to work on Wikipedia entries for women artists.

The workshop will include research resources and access to the Gallery’s specialist Research Library. Basic computer skills are required. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Bring your own laptop. Extra computers will be available on request.

Further information will be provided on registration.

Presented in partnership with Wikimedia Australia as part of the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative to increase representation of women and gender diverse artists.

Booking online: https://nga.gov.au/events/know-my-name-wikipedia-editathon-2024/

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.

Just over 19% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower.

Join Caddie Brain, Executive Officer, Wikimedia Australia and the National Gallery’s Research Library staff for a free interactive workshop where you will have the opportunity to work on Wikipedia entries of artists featured in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now.

The workshop will include research resources and access to the Gallery’s specialist Research Library. Basic computer skills are required. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Bring your own laptop. Extra computers will be available on request.

Further information will be provided on registration.

Presented in partnership with Wikimedia Australia as part of the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative to increase representation of women and gender diverse artists.

In conjunction with International Women’s Day help us increase information about Australian women artists on Wikipedia. Learn about the world’s largest and most popular research tool and how to edit Wikipedia entries.

Just over 19% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower.

Join Belinda Spry and James Gaunt from Wikimedia Australia and the National Gallery’s Research Library staff for an interactive workshop where you will have the opportunity to work on Wikipedia entries of artists featured in the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative.

The workshop will include research resources and access to the Gallery’s specialist Research Library. Basic computer skills are required. No previous Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Bring your own laptop. Extra computers will be available on request.

Further information will be provided on registration.

Presented in partnership with Wikimedia Australia as part of the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative to increase representation of women and gender diverse artists.

Speakers:

• Dr Tasha Weir manages the SAGE Athena Swan program at La Trobe University.
• Dr Quinn Eades is a Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow, writer, and award-winning poet whose work lies at the nexus of feminist and queer theories of the body, autobiography, and philosophy.
• Dr Thomas Shafee is part of the library’s scholarly publishing and academic engagement team, and our resident wiki ninja

Alex Lum, President of Wikimedia Australia will share some mapmaking tools, opportunities and ideas from across the Wikimedia platforms.

This presentation will be followed by presentations, questions or discussion points from anyone! Add yours to the agenda here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/AustralianCommunityMeeting_13_April_2022

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

Wikipedia is a free encyclopaedia, edited by volunteers from around the world. In this session you’ll learn how reliable Wikipedia is, how it’s being used in classrooms, and how it can help people understand referencing, misinformation, and the need for reliable sources. Information from Wikipedia is used by search engines like Google, and AI chatbots like Chat GPT, and you’ll see how easy it is to edit Wikipedia yourself to make sure this information remains correct.

This event is being hosted by ALIA, and is open to ALIA Members and Non-members. Registrations can be made on at the ALIA website.

This event will be held online on Zoom.

The relationship between Wikipedia and academic publishing is changing. In particular, WikiJournals are bringing together the scholarly rigour of academic publishing with the massive impact of Wikipedia and Wikidata. Participating journals publish a range of formats: from broad reviews copied fully into Wikipedia, to image galleries that get integrated throughout the encyclopedia, to stand-alone research and teaching articles.

What does this look like to an Academic? We're used to even top academic articles getting <10,000 views ever, whereas a Wikipedia article on the same topic can get that many each day. Getting both a peer reviewed, citable journal article, that's also integrated into Wikipedia to reach broader demographics like students, journalists and policymakers merges the best of both worlds.

What does this look like to a librarian? It's an interesting way to match quality assurance. It's also unusual to see journals that are free to both reader and author ('Diamond OA'). Article metadata is also integrated Wikidata - an exciting meta-database that's flexible, human- and machine-readable, and multilingual.

What does this look like to a Wikipedian? It's an effective was of drawing in subject-experts who would otherwise not have contributed to a Wikimedia project as authors, peer reviewers and editors. It's a way to generate new high-quality content as well as thoroughly audit existing content.

For those who came to last year's session (https://doi.org/10.26181/5ED388168AE4B) this seminar will cover new ground and avoid repetition, but for those who didn't, we'll still be introducing the necessary background. We'll look at new experiments in format, statistics on impacts so far, and what lessons can be applied to pother projects.

Ever looked up something about the Northern Territory on Wikipedia and couldn't find it?

The Environment Centre NT is working to change that with Wikimedian in Residence Caddie Brain. We're working to update pages about the NT's natural environment, in partnership with Wikimedia Australia.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia - the go-to place for basic information about everything and anything. And anyone can edit and upload content.

Come and learn how to edit Wikipedia and work together on pages about NT places, plants, animals, ecology, people, projects... you name it!

All welcome! No experience is necessary. Just bring your own laptop or device. Participants are encouraged to set up their Wikipedia account prior to the day if you don’t already have one.

This is a free event. Please register via Eventbrite link.

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)

Region: National Location: Zoom

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

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly.

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

Add yourself as attending here on Wikipedia

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

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 7:00pm (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).

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly.

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

Add yourself as attending here on Meta Wiki.

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. 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.

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.

WikiCon 2023 will be held in Brisbane on 18 November 2023!

We invite anyone interested in open knowledge and meeting fellow Wikimedians to join us for an exciting program covering all things Wiki.

Everyone is welcome, from beginners to experts, as we cover some of the exciting developments, tools and projects that our Australian community are undertaking on Wikipedia, Wikidata, WikiCommons, WikiSource and other Wiki platforms.

Join us on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81020904304?pwd=aKBgFhovfTbhaXIa5pGvh6iJPqWhlb.1

Join us on Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiCon2023Brisbane

Program is available at: WikiCon 2023 Brisbane Program

WikiCon Aotearoa 2024 is the annual gathering for all new and experienced editors of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource projects.

Anyone interested in editing is welcome to attend. This conference is organised by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ).

It aims to provide training to new editors, to encourage editors to learn new skills, to grow the Wiki community in Auckland and to ensure that we have a fun weekend.

Casual social meetup to celebrate an amazing ten years of Wikidata. Friendly conversation with coffee and cake, and much discussion of Wikidata. No experience required; bring a laptop if you want to get stuck in.

A special guest will be joining us from over east! Margaret Donald will share her recent work on improving biota Wikidata items, and encourage others to get involved.

The venue is upstairs in the Robert Harper Building, use the door on Pakenham Street. There will be a sign on the door with our phone number (if the door is closed).

If you would like to join remotely, we'll have a video call set up from 10:00 – 10:30: https://meet.google.com/mhc-uoms-fdx

Wikimedia Australia is thrilled to present the work of our inaugural Wikidata Fellows for 2022.

Our fellows Kerrie Burn, Margaret Donald, and Brett Tweedie have been exploring all things Wikidata these last few months, to develop a prototype or undertake an investigation of some time.

From biota, to women in religion to footy... come an explore some observations of what Wikidata can do from our fellows.

This presentation forms part of our community meeting series on each month.

Read more about the Wikidata Fellowship program here.

The WikidataCon is an event focused on the Wikidata community in a broad sense: editors, tools builders, but also 3rd party reusers, partner organizations that are using or contributing to the data, the ecosystem of organizations working with Wikibase. The content of the conference will have some parts dedicated to people who want to learn more about Wikidata, some workshops and discussions for the community to share skills and exchange about their practices, and some space left to include side events for specific projects (WikiCite, Wikibase, GLAM, etc.).

The first annual symposium of the wikihistories project has been announced.

Wikipedia scholars and researchers will participate in a two-day symposium being held online on the 8th and 9th of June to discuss Wikipedia as a history-making platform.

The draft schedule and book of abstracts are available now, featuring keynotes by Dr Shira Klein and Dr Simon Sleight.

Registration is now open. Register for one or both days as you choose. Zoom details will be provided to registered attendees prior to the event.

Day 1: June 7th/8th 2023 for participants in the Asia-Pacific (1000-1300 AEST).

Day 2: June 8th/9th 2023 for participants in Africa and Europe (1600-1900 AEST).

This year’s symposium will feature keynotes by Dr Shira Klein and Dr Simon Sleight.

Dr Shira Klein is an Associate Professor of History at Chapman University. Her recent article on “Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” has garnered tens of thousands of views since its publication in February, has received media coverage in English, Polish, Hebrew, German, and Spanish, and has triggered a rare self-initiated action of English Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee.

Dr Simon Sleight is a Reader in Urban History, Historical Youth Cultures and Australian History at King’s College, London. Dr Sleight is the co-editor of History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present (Routledge, 2018) and will provide a rich background to our investigations of collective memory from the history discipline for an interdisciplinary audience.

The 2024 wikihistories symposium will gather together social scientists, humanists, critical technologists, and others to investigate Wikipedia’s connection to data and the importance of this relationship for the global information ecosystem and the production of knowledge. The workshop will be organised as a day-long, face-to-face event prior to the annual International Communication Association conference on the Gold Coast in Australia.

Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement’s annual conference celebrating all the free and open knowledge projects made possible by the volunteer community - Commons Wikimedia Commons, MediaWiki MediaWiki, Meta-Wiki Meta-Wiki, Wikibooks Wikibooks, Wikidata Wikidata, Wikinews Wikinews, Wikipedia Wikipedia, Wikiquote Wikiquote, Wikisource Wikisource, Wikispecies Wikispecies, Wikiversity Wikiversity, Wikivoyage Wikivoyage, Wiktionary Wiktionary

This year’s Wikimania will bring Wikimedians together to create, celebrate and connect, virtually and with in-person components. It will be four days of gathering, discussions, meetups, training, and workshops. to discuss issues, report on new projects and approaches, and exchange ideas.

The theme for this year’s virtual Wikimania is “The Festival Edition”. We will come together to spotlight projects and movement groups and celebrate the diversity of our vast community.

Wikimania: The Festival Edition! can be summed up in three words: it will be fun, alive, and vibrant; it will be regional, shining a light on communities across the movement through the festivities; and it will welcome newcomers, creating a safe space for first-time attendees that illuminates and inspires.

Registrations are now open here!

The Annual General Meeting of Wikimedia Australia Inc. will be held online.

The scope of the meeting is to vote on a special resolution to amend the rules of the association, to receive the annual reports from officers of the association, and announce the results of the ballot for the board for the upcoming year.

In October, Wikimedia Australia are hosting regular drop in sessions on Zoom each Thursday morning.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

In October, Wikimedia Australia are hosting regular drop in sessions on Zoom each Thursday morning.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

In October, Wikimedia Australia are hosting regular drop in sessions on Zoom each Thursday morning.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

In October, Wikimedia Australia are hosting regular drop in sessions on Zoom each Thursday morning.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

Wikimedia Australia are hosting regular drop in sessions on Zoom, now extended into November.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

Wikimedia Australia are hosting regular drop in sessions on Zoom, now extended into November.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

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.

Panellists are ​​Mike Dickison, Dr Andrew Leung, Alex Stinson, and Siobhan Leachman, chaired by Dr Thomas Shafee.

This event is part of Open Access Week 2022. See the full program one the Open Access Week 2022 Program Page

This event has ended. Watch a recording here.

This year’s Open Access week theme seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries.

Open Access Australasia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Open Access Australasia recognises the Awabakal, Turrbal and Yugara, and Bedegal as the First Nations owners of the lands where we work.

We also pay our respects to all indigenous peoples wherever they are in the world including ngā iwi, Māori the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2021 Board of Trustees elections are from 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term. After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 20 candidates for the 2021 election. This event is for community members of South Asian and ESEAP communities to know the candidates and interact with them.

The Wikimedia Hackathon is taking place in person in Tallinn, Estonia, from May 3rd to May 5th, 2024.

To secure your spot, complete the registration and scholarship form.

Scholarships from the Wikimedia Foundation that cover travel and accommodation expenses are also available for a selected group of technical contributors.

The deadline for scholarship applications is January 5th, 2024.

This event brings together academics who use Wikipedia as part of their teaching practice or analyse wiki data, and key actors bridging the academia-Wikipedia divide. Participants will share their experiences, address Wikipedia’s potential to address the “crisis of information”, and critically reflect on what role educational institutions can play in this respect.
This event will be streamed online. Just select an online ticket when placing your booking.

We invite you to join us as “Record Correctors”, scholars, musicians, journalists, archivists and passionate fans all working to ensure that Australian popular music is given due representation in the world’s biggest online and open access research resource. Our emphasis is on minority/traditionally underrepresented groups in particular, as well as ensuring current entries of importance are given contemporary context.

The day will include formal instruction and explanation by Wikimedia Australia experts Belinda Spry and James Gaunt, where we learn practical ways to correct existing Wikipedia content and ultimately add to the richness and reliability of the outlet as a source of current and historical information about Australian popular music.

As well as the Wiki workshops, we will also spend some time considering how we might go forward as “Record Correctors” - considering who and what to target next and how to go about this.

On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was established and first edited! This year Wikipedia Day is an occasion to celebrate Wikipedia's 23rd birthday.

Let's gather around the table and share a birthday morning tea and slice of birthday cake together - tag us with a photo of your morning tea on social media and use the hashtag #wikipediaday2024, or upload to Wikimedia Commons.

We'd also love to hear your thoughts about what you achieved on Wikipedia in 2023, and what you'll be working on in 2024.

Let's celebrate Wikipedia Day!

Image attribution: DrThneed, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

An edit-a-thon (alternatively spelled "editathon") is one or more events in which people work together in person or online to build content on a wiki. During this session, you will have the opportunity to add your own references to pages, all while having an expert Wiki Editor on hand to answer your questions.

Edit-a-thons improve the encyclopedia and can be a great way to help new Wikipedians learn to edit. As part of Library and Information Week – ‘Where’s the Source?’, the Campbelltown Public Library is partnering with Wikimedia, to conduct a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

In this 2-hour session, you will be shown the basics of Wikipedia and how to make edits to Wikipedia pages. Join us for an interactive workshop where you can learn to edit and make new entries to Wikipedia. You will have the opportunity to add your own references to pages, all while having an expert Wiki Editor on hand to answer all your questions.

Unfortunately the event scheduled for Tuesday, 1 August has been cancelled. We apologies for the inconvenience.

We will be hosting an online session Thursday, 3 August at 1:30pm AEST. Bookings can be made here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/introducing-wikipedia-a-free-online-workshop-tickets-662689972547

Would you believe that the 5th most visited website in the world, Wikipedia, has a serious gender bias? Only 17% of the people profiled on Wikipedia are women. Not only does this mean that many talented women (and their work) are not getting the recognition they deserve, but it also critically skews perceptions about the contributions that women make to many different endeavours. This is no doubt influenced by the fact that only 8-16% of the people who actively contribute content to Wikipedia identify as women.

Join Franklin Women on Thursday 25th July (the birthday of our namesake, Rosalind Franklin) to make the internet just that little bit better. Together we can increase the visibility on Wikipedia of women who have made important contributions to the health and medical research sector, as well as increase the number of women who have the skills to become Wikipedia editors.

Editing Wikipedia might sound daunting but the platform is designed so that anyone can contribute, and you can do this in many different ways – from improving the quality of existing articles to adding a whole new page. To help you on the day, we will start the afternoon with a tutorial and there will be several experienced Wikimedians there for when you start editing. After the session we will be celebrating our edits over canapés and drinks – we hope you can stay!

The City of Sydney Library is joining the movement to remedy the imbalance and bias in the diversity of voices on Wikipedia.

Join them for their 'Picture This' edit-a-thon workshop led by City Historians Dr Lisa Murray and Laila Ellmoos and supported by experienced Wikipedia editors Toby Hudson and Ann Reynolds. With their help, participants will focus on improving Sydney-specific Wikipedia articles with historic images sourced from the City Archives collection.

No experience is necessary to join the edit-a-thon. Bring your own laptop or tablet and connect to our free wi-fi or use one of our devices. (A limited number of library devices will be available for use at the event).

Participants are encouraged to set up a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop.

Wikimedia Australia are hosting casual drop in sessions on Zoom.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

Wikimedia Australia are hosting casual drop in sessions on Zoom.

Are you interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia? Or need help adding a reference? Would you like some tips on using Visual Editor?

Our volunteers will be available to answer questions you have. Feel free to drop in at any time.

This event will be held on Zoom.

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in this country, when you search something online a Wikipedia page is one of the top results.

Places limited! Bookings essential!

Indigenous self-determination is important. Mob learning how to edit, improve, and add content related to us to Wikipedia is essential. If helping to shape our stories on a resource seen worldwide and giving us greater visibility is important to you, come along to our Wikipedia Editathon.

Thursday June 22 - 10 AM - 1 PM - The Edge, State Library of Queensland.

No experience is necessary. Our First Nations Wikipedian In Residence and another experienced Wikipedia editor will teach you. We’ll be focusing on First Nations music creators, composers, artists, and organisations. The skills you learn will set you up to edit any Wikipedia content.

Bring your own laptop or tablet and connect to our free wi-fi or use one of our devices. (A limited number of library devices will be available for use at the event).

Please sign up for a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop.

Lunch provided from an Indigenous owned and operated independent business. If any of you mob in the area have any questions or need $ assistance to get to us on the day for the event, please get in contact. contact@wikimedia.org.au

Looking forward to meeting you!