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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: larger; margin:1em 0;">Wikimedia Australia is the Australian chapter of the international Wikimedia Foundation. We support people and organisations to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia platforms through events, training and partnerships.</div>


[[File:Louise Sauvage, Australian athlete at the 1992 Paralympic Games.jpg|thumb|left|https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Paralympics_Wikipedia_edit-a-thon|430px|link=Paralympics Wikipedia edit-a-thon|'''[[Paralympics Wikipedia edit-a-thon]]''' The City of Sydney Library is hosting an edit-a-thon to increase and improve content relevant to our diverse communities. Join us online Saturday, 25 September. [[Paralympics Wikipedia edit-a-thon|Read more]]]]


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[[File:Rainbow_Bee-eaters_at_Round_Hill_Nature_Reserve_NSW_Australia.jpg|thumb|left|https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth_winners_announced_for_2021|430px|link=https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth_winners_announced_for_2021|'''[https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth_winners_announced_for_2021 Wiki Loves Earth winners announced for 2021]''' The Wiki Loves Earth photo competition is documenting our natural world. [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth_winners_announced_for_2021 See the winning photos now!]]]
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====What's on!====
'''Wikimedia Australia, Inc.'''&reg; is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, whose primary aim is to promote equality of opportunity to access and participate in the collaborative creation of [[w:Free content|Free Cultural Works]], especially educational works, and works about Australia, its culture, natural environment, and Australian news and media. '''See our [[Statement of Purpose]] & [[Rules]]'''.


Wikimedia Australia is recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation as an [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters official chapter] and as such will offer members an official voice in the global Wikimedia community, whose aim is to create ''the sum of all human knowledge, freely available in your own language''.
Upcoming Events:
{{event list}}


The purpose of Wikimedia Australia is to:
[[Events|See more events]]
* organise and participate in educational and social events that promote development of Free Cultural Works and related open source software systems, in particular ''wikis''
* increase public awareness, support and participation in the projects hosted by the [[wikimedia:Main Page|''Wikimedia Foundation'']] (WMF)
* develop resources to assist Australians in the creation and maintenance of Free Cultural Works


'''Note:''' Wikimedia Australia and the Wikimedia Foundation have ''no relationship with WikiLeaks'', formally or informally. For more information please see [http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/12/09/what%E2%80%99s-in-a-name-in-the-case-of-%E2%80%98wiki%E2%80%99-lots-of-things/ "What's in a name"] from the official Wikimedia Foundation blog.
See also the full [[calendar]], and list of [[past events]].
 
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Revision as of 04:13, 10 September 2021


Wikimedia Australia is the Australian chapter of the international Wikimedia Foundation. We support people and organisations to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia platforms through events, training and partnerships.
Paralympics Wikipedia edit-a-thon The City of Sydney Library is hosting an edit-a-thon to increase and improve content relevant to our diverse communities. Join us online Saturday, 25 September. Read more
Wiki Loves Earth winners announced for 2021 The Wiki Loves Earth photo competition is documenting our natural world. See the winning photos now!

What's on!

Upcoming Events:

See more events

See also the full calendar, and list of past events.

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