The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia

Revision as of 05:04, 21 February 2022

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 searched for Beat magazine, National Indigenous Music Award nominee Stuart Joel Nuggett, or composer Robin Fox, none of these had Wikipedia entries up until recently.

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.

See below for some of the many articles we have created and improved so far.

Read the full media release.

Events

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, Register here
The Country Record: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Thursday 17 March 2022, 2pm - 5pm, Online, Register here

Partners

Founding Partner

Event partners

Australian Music Vault, Australian Music Centre, Country Music Association of Australia and APRA AMCOS.

31 Articles Created

18 Articles Improved

The project Dashboard is available here.

Contact

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

Credits

Illustration: Rubii Red

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 [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] and [https://www.apraamcos.com.au/ APRA AMCOS].
-== Articles Created ==
+== 31 Articles Created ==
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarght_Records Aarght Records]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Wyatt Aaron Wyatt]
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 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_J_Scullin Byron J Scullin]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Ties_(band) Cable Ties]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sainsbury Christopher Sainsbury]
 * [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/The_John_Curtin_Hotel The John Curtin Hotel]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyna_Wilkins Keyna Wilkins]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyna_Wilkins Kenya Wilkins]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Skipworth Lachlan Skipworth]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Architecture Liquid Architecture]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_John_Curtin_Hotel The John Curtin Hotel]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mihelakos Mary Mihelakos]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Street_Press_of_Australia Music Street Press of Australia]
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 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Fox_(Australian_musician) Robin Fox]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Terenzi Roza Terenzi]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Sainsbury Christopher Sainsbury]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_Australia Sounds Australia]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_Australia Sounds Australia]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinifex_Gum Spinifex Gum]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Level_(record_label) Spirit Level]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Percussion Speak Percussion]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Level_(record_label) Spirit Level]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_Cartel_(band) Tijuana Cartel]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treetops_(band) Treetops]
-== Articles Improved ==
+== 18 Articles Improved ==
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_classical_music 2016 in classical music]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA_Hall_of_Fame ARIA Hall of Fame]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANU_School_of_Music ANU School of Music]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_classical_music Australian classical music]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Music_Centre Australian Music Centre]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Edwardes Claire Edwardes]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Offspring Ensemble Offspring]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Riebl Felix Riebl]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Williams Gina Williams]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana_Choirs Gondwana Choirs]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamed_Sadeghi Hamed Sadeghi]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Gifford Helen Gifford]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inpress Inpress]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Bailey_(pianist) Judy Bailey]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hindson Matthew Hindson]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Con Mod Con]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_City_Records Poison City Records]