The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia

Revision as of 10:56, 25 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.
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.

33 Articles Created

19 Articles Improved

The project Dashboard is available here.

Contact

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

Credits

Illustration: 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.

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 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ovarian_Sisters The Ovarian Sisters]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Fox_(Australian_musician) Robin Fox]
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 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Terenzi Roza Terenzi]
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_Australia Sounds Australia]