The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia

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'''Putting Australian music on the record – new Wikipedia projects aims to increase discoverability of Australian artists'''

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world. Its content is often the first to appear in web searches, yet if you search for Beat magazine, National Indigenous Music Award nominee Stuart Joel Nuggett or composer Robin Fox, none of these currently have Wikipedia entries.

Wikimedia Australia and the Australia Council for the Arts have partnered on a new project The Record - Australian Music on Wikipedia which aims to increase the visibility of Australian content on Wikipedia and make it easier for global audiences to discover great Australian music. 

Through four edit-a-thon events across Australia, The Record will grow the low number of Wikipedia articles about Australian musicians, organisations and publications. Volunteers will be invited to be trained to edit, expand, and create new articles related to a diverse range of Australian music and musicians.

[[Putting_Australian_music_on_the_record|Read the full media release.]]

== Events ==
* [[The_Record:_Melbourne_Music_Week_Edit-a-thon|The Record: Melbourne Music Week Edit-a-thon]], Saturday 11 December 2021, 10am - 1pm, Collingwood Yards.
* The Record: Australian Music Centre, Friday 18 February 2022, 10am - 1pm, Online, Registrations coming soon
* Recording Country: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Thursday 3 March 2022, 2pm - 5pm, Online, Registrations coming soon

==Partners==
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* [https://australiacouncil.gov.au/ Australia Council for the Arts]
* [https://australianmusicvault.com.au Australian Music Vault]
* [https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/ Australian Music Centre]
* [https://www.country.com.au/ Country Music Association of Australia]
* [https://www.apraamcos.com.au/ APRA AMCOS]

== Articles Created ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTI_FADE_records ANTI FADE Records]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Music_Vault The Australian Music Vault]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Ties_(band) Cable Ties]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy_Records Corduroy Records]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Club Cry Club]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_Dissolve Divide and Dissolve]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mihelakos Mary Mihelakos]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinifex_Gum Spinifex Gum]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treetops_(band) Treetops]

== Articles Improved ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA_Hall_of_Fame ARIA Hall of Fame]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Riebl Felix Riebl]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana_Choirs Gondwana Choirs]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inpress Inpress]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Con Mod Con]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_City_Records Poison City Records]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Hannaford Ross Hannaford]

[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/the_record_australian_music_on_wikipedia/programs The project Dashboard is available here.]

==Contact==
Project Coordinator, James Gaunt: contact@wikimedia.org.au

==Credits==
Illustration: Rubii Red

==Further reading==

* [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-10/wikipedia-editing-blitz-aims-to-boost-australian-music-profile/100686138 Wikipedia 'edit-a-thons' set to amplify Australian music scene's Wikipedia presence] - ABC, Dec 2021
* [https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/afternoons/afternoons/13660030 James Gaunt talks to Jacinta Parsons about why The Record matters (2:24:00)] - ABC Melbourne, Dec 2021
* [https://www.pedestrian.tv/music/wikipedia-aussie-music/ Wikipedia Is A Depressing Wasteland When It Comes To Aussie Music But That’s About To Change] - Pedestrian, Dec 2021