Know My Name


“Making Women Count” at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
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In 2019, just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia were about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number was even lower.

Wikimedia Australia has partnered with the National Gallery of Australia since 2020 as part of its Know My Name gender equity campaign, to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women.

Each year in March, we have co-hosted a series of edit-a-thons with galleries and libraries around Australia on the weekend of International Women's day, also as part of Art+Feminism.

Coordinated by Caddie Brain and her team in each state, the first weekend in 2020 saw 125 (mostly first time editors) create 69 new articles about female creators. Across the 7 edit-a-thons, 757 references were added to Wikipedia, and participants edited 223 articles. Read the full story here.

Know My Name Regional Gallery Tour

Wikimedia Australia are partnering with the NGA again in 2024 and 2025 to support the Know My Name Regional touring exhibition. The exhibition will visit five regional towns with the theme “Making Women Count”.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery edit-a-thon highlights

10 Feb 2024 - See what we were able to achieve at the first stop on the exhibition and edit-a-thon tour with the Mornington Gallery event dashboard. We were also visited by Jan Randles, a Paralympic athletics competitor. We were able to add a photo to her Wikipedia page.

We would like to offer our sincerest thanks to our lovely hosts from the Gallery, Jane German (Public Programs Coordinator) and Danja Rmandic (Curator Exhibitions). We would also like to thank Pru Mitchell, one of our Wikimedia Australia members, for all of her help.

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