The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia

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.
• Geelong on the Record Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Saturday 30 April 2022, 10:30am - 2pm, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre. Register here

Partners

Founding Partner

Event partners

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

43 Articles Created

• Aarght Records
• Aaron Wyatt
• Amanda Villepastour
• Anne Cawrse
• Anti Fade Records
• The Australian Music Vault
• Beat Magazine
• Bree van Reyk
• Brenda Gifford
• Byron J Scullin
• Cable Ties
• Camille Trail
• Christopher Sainsbury
• Corduroy Records
• Cry Club
• Divide and Dissolve
• Dobe Newton
• Erik Griswold
• Gold Coast Music Awards
• Halyna Korin
• The John Curtin Hotel
• Keyna Wilkins
• Lachlan Skipworth
• Liquid Architecture
• Mace Francis
• Mary Mihelakos
• Melody Pool
• Music Street Press of Australia
• Music Victoria
• Nadje Noordhuis
• Nat Bartsch
• The Ovarian Sisters
• Robin Fox
• Room40
• Roza Terenzi
• Sounds Australia
• Speak Percussion
• Spinifex Gum
• Spirit Level
• Stuart Joel Nuggett
• Tijuana Cartel
• Tom Curtain
• Treetops

22 Articles Improved

• 2016 in classical music
• ARIA Hall of Fame
• ANU School of Music
• Australian classical music
• Australian Music Centre
• Claire Edwardes
• Ensemble Offspring
• Felix Riebl
• Gina Williams
• Gondwana Choirs
• Hamed Sadeghi
• Helen Gifford
• Inpress
• Judy Bailey
• Matthew Hindson
• Mod Con
• Poison City Records
• R.I.P Society Records
• Resident Advisor
• Ross Hannaford
• Sally Greenaway
• Vanessa Tomlinson

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.

Further reading

• Wikipedia 'edit-a-thons' set to amplify Australian music scene's Wikipedia presence - ABC, Dec 2021
• James Gaunt talks to Jacinta Parsons about why The Record matters (2:24:00) - ABC Melbourne, Dec 2021
• Wikipedia Is A Depressing Wasteland When It Comes To Aussie Music But That’s About To Change - Pedestrian, Dec 2021
• Wikimedia launches initiative to boost Wikipedia coverage of Aussie acts - The Music Network, Dec 2021
• Want More Aussie Music Names In Wikipedia? - Mixdown, Dec 2021
• Expanding Australian music’s presence on Wikipedia - Limelight, Feb 2022
• Push for More Australian Music on Wikipedia - The Violin Channel, Feb 2022
• The Record: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - Australian Music Centre, Feb 2022