The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia

Revision as of 00:03, 31 January 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 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.

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, Registrations coming soon
Recording Country: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Thursday 3 March 2022, 2pm - 5pm, Online, Registrations coming soon
Event 4 TBC, details coming soon

Partners

Articles Created

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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 == Articles Created ==
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarght_Records Aarght Records]
 * [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/Beat_Magazine Beat Magazine]
+* [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/Corduroy_Records Corduroy Records]
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 * [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/Music_Street_Press_of_Australia Music Street Press of Australia]
+* [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/Spinifex_Gum Spinifex Gum]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treetops_(band) Treetops]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Fox_(Australian_musician) Robin Fox]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_J_Scullin Byron J Scullin]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarght_Records Aarght Records]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Magazine Beat Magazine]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Terenzi Roza Terenzi]
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Street_Press_of_Australia Music Street Press of Australia]
 == Articles Improved ==