The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia

Revision as of 04:57, 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.

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/Aaron_Wyatt Aaron Wyatt]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Cawrse Anne Cawrse]
 * [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/Bree_van_Reyk Bree van Reyk]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Gifford Brenda Gifford]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_J_Scullin Byron J Scullin]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Ties_(band) Cable Ties]
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 * [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 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/Mary_Mihelakos Mary Mihelakos]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Street_Press_of_Australia Music Street Press of Australia]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Victoria Music Victoria]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Bartsch Nat Bartsch]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ovarian_Sisters The Ovarian Sisters]
 * [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/Spinifex_Gum Spinifex Gum]
+* [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]