News archive
| Title | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Celebrating Volunteers | 2025-05-19 | the impact of contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects |
| My Wikipedia page could be better | 2025-05-16 | Do you have a Wikipedia page? Here is what you can do if you don't like it! |
| Announcing Wikimedia Australia’s 10-Year Strategic Plan (2025–2035) | 2025-05-01 | A Message from the President on behalf of the Board and staff of Wikimedia Australia |
| Wikimedia Australia April 2025 Update | 2025-05-01 | Our latest newsletter |
| A Wiki Day at SA Museum: From Photos to Facts | 2025-04-30 | Exploring the Wikimedia Commons workflow at South Australian Museum |
| From Archives to Wikipedia: Documenting Australian Feminism Through Radical Acts | 2025-04-28 | Wikimedians-in-Residence at the State Library of Victoria, February-June 2025 |
| Wikimedia Australia and Terri Janke and Company to scope a First Nations Protocol | 2025-04-02 | Wikimedia Australia and Terri Janke and Company to scope a First Nations Protocol |
| Know My Name in 2025 | 2025-04-01 | News from the 2025 Know My Name campaign |
| 1Lib1Ref 2025 | 2025-03-26 | Librarians! Join us for #1Lib1Ref |
| Reflections from RightsCon 2025 in Taipei | 2025-03-13 | Advancing human rights in the digital age. |
| Using Wikiversity and WikiLearn for Teaching and Learning | 2025-02-18 | The presentation is now available on Wikimedia Commons |
| Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 | 2025-02-12 | Grab your camera, smartphone, or recording device, and start capturing photos, videos, or audio that tell the story of Australian folklore! |
| Building a Safer Online Community | 2025-02-11 | On Safer Internet Day, Wikimedia Australia reaffirms its commitment to building and participating in a safe, inclusive, and accessible online environment. |
| Introducing Wikimedia Australia’s Draft 10-Year Strategic Plan – Share Your Feedback! | 2025-02-10 | This plan builds on our achievements to date and sets ambitious goals to grow and strengthen our community, partnerships and impact across Australia and within the wider Wikimedia movement. |
| Work continues adding Central Australian Historical Images to Wikimedia Commons | 2025-02-07 | Over 1,000 images have now been added to Wikimedia Commons |
| Celebrating Achievement: OAM Awarded to Sports Historian and Wikipedia Editor for Paralympic Contributions | 2025-02-04 | Congratulations to Greg Blood (OAM) |
| I think this Wikipedia article needs to be changed but I don’t know how | 2025-02-03 | A short guide on how to update a Wikipedia page. |
| 17 Inspiring Australian Women to Celebrate This Australia Day | 2025-01-21 | This Australia Day, let’s celebrate the contributions of these extraordinary women |
| APNIC Foundation | 2025-01-08 | An update on the Ian Peter Digitisation Project |
| Announcing 2025 Partner Projects | 2025-01-07 | Organisations awarded Wikimedia Australia Partner Project funding for 2024-2025 |
| Public Domain Day 2025 | 2025-01-01 | Happy New Year and Happy Public Domain Day! |
| Celebrating a Milestone | 2024-12-23 | Women's Biographies on Wikipedia Reach 20% |
| Celebrating Women in Biomechanics | 2024-12-10 | A Successful Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon |
| The Open GLAM Toolkit | 2024-12-09 | Resources to help identify, prepare, and publish digital collections for open access |
| Tribute to JarrahTree: an exceptional Australian Wikimedian | 2024-12-03 | Vale, JarrahTree |
| Wikimedia Australia November 2024 Update | 2024-11-29 | Our latest newsletter |
| WikiCon 2024 Wrap Up | 2024-11-27 | Reflections from WikiCon - "Create space", "Pickle the idea", and ask "What if…?” |
| An Introduction to Wikipedia A Free Online Course | 2024-11-24 | A new WikiLearn course has been launched |
| Wikimedia Australia Joins the TAROCH Coalition to support a Cultural Heritage Recommendation | 2024-11-20 | |
| Wikimedia Australia October 2024 Update | 2024-10-30 | Our latest newsletter |
| WikiCon Australia 2024 | 2024-10-16 | WikiCon 2024 program is live! |
| A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics | 2024-10-11 | Imagine covering the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. That's exactly what one Wikipedian did! |
| Project Manager and Digitisation Officer: Contract Positions Available in Brisbane | 2024-10-11 | These positions have now been filled. |
| The Lost Women of Cybernetics | 2024-10-09 | Successful editathon with the ANU School of Cybernetics |
| Using Wikimedia in Higher Education | 2024-09-24 | The recording from the workshop on using Wikipedia to enhance student communication skills is now available |
| Statement from our incoming President | 2024-09-20 | Elliott Bledsoe outlines areas of focus going forward |
| Amanda Lawrence steps away from Wikimedia Australia Board | 2024-09-18 | Thank you, Amanda. The Australian Wikimedia community wishes you every success in the future! |
| Craig Franklin Award 2024 | 2024-09-15 | Wikimedia Australia is proud to announce the winner of the Craig Franklin Award for 2024 |
| General AGM Board Member Update 2024 | 2024-09-15 | What does the latest Wikimedia Australia board look like? |
| Artbank's editathon for gender equity in Australian visual arts | 2024-09-05 | Earlier this week Artbank Sydney’s vibrant gallery space transformed into a dynamic hub of creativity, knowledge-sharing, and digital activism. |
| Wikimedia Australia August 2024 Update | 2024-08-27 | Our latest newsletter |
| Partner Projects 2024-2025 | 2024-08-12 | Applications for Partner Projects 2024-2025 have now closed |
| Wikimedia Australia July 2024 Update | 2024-07-31 | Our latest newsletter |
| Empowering women in STEMM: Franklin Women editathons in Sydney and Canberra | 2024-07-30 | Empowering Women in Science: Bridging the Digital Divide, One Edit at a Time. |
| Statement from Wikimedia Australia regarding the ratification vote of the Wikimedia Movement Charter | 2024-07-10 | A statement from Wikimedia Australia |
| Wikimedia Australia June 2024 Update | 2024-06-30 | Our latest newsletter |
| ANZSI-CSU SICS-Wikimedia Australia PartnerProject: Final report (June 2024) | 2024-06-28 | Final report on identifying and filling gaps in library and information science (LIS)-related content on Wikimedia platforms |
| First Nations Resources | 2024-06-12 | A collection of resources around how to most culturally appropriately write about First Nations content on our platforms. |
| Environment Centre NT Wikipedian in Residence | 2024-06-10 | Over 100 images have been added to Wikimedia Commons in the last few months as part of the Northern Territory Environment Wiki Project. |
| First Nations Focus Group Report | 2024-06-03 | First Nations Peoples' Experiences Using and Editing Wikipedia: Focus Groups Report Released |
| Wikimedia Australia May 2024 Update | 2024-05-31 | Our latest newsletter |
| Capturing the history of the regional field naturalist clubs of Victoria | 2024-05-02 | Partner Project Update from the Biodiversity Heritage Library |
| Coordinate Me 2024 | 2024-05-01 | Wikidata Geodata Competition for May 2024 |
| Central Australian images on Wikimedia Commons | 2024-05-01 | The Anton Faymann Collection is now on Wikimedia Commons |
| Open letter on the Global Digital Compact from Wikimedia Australia and the Wikimedia Foundation | 2024-04-30 | To His Excellency Mr James Larsen, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations |
| Wikimedia Australia April 2024 Update | 2024-04-30 | Our latest newsletter |
| ANZSI-CSU SICS-Wikimedia Australia Partner Project Update | 2024-04-16 | Identifying and filling gaps in library and information science (LIS)-related content on Wikimedia platforms |
| Wikipedia Citation Needed AI Tool | 2024-04-09 | An experimental Chrome extension for finding citations in Wikipedia by using ChatGPT |
| Art and Feminism in Australia | 2024-04-04 | What we've been up to for Art+Feminism in Australia. |
| EPA Victoria WiR April 2024 Update | 2024-04-02 | Wikipedian in Residence boosts EPA Victoria’s presence on Wikipedia. |
| Wikimedia Australia March 2024 Update | 2024-03-27 | Our latest newsletter |
| GLAM Image Reports | 2024-03-25 | Where do the images on Wikipedia come from? |
| Wikimedia Australia February 2024 Update | 2024-03-01 | Our latest newsletter |
| Wikipedian Ann Reynolds hits 100000 edits | 2024-02-28 | Australian Wikimedian Ann Reynolds hit 100,000 edits on Wikipedia! |
| STARDIT and Wikimedia Australia | 2024-02-27 | Wikimedia Australia is excited to support STARDIT's journey, a groundbreaking fusion of innovation and transparency in the open-knowledge landscape. |
| Know My Name | 2024-02-19 | Making Women Count |
| Alice Springs Wartime Heritage on Wikimedia Commons | 2024-02-16 | The Dowling Collection is now on Wikimedia Commons |
| Wikimedia Research Fund | 2024-02-15 | Applications close March 14 2024 |
| Wikimedia Australia Loves Libraries | 2024-02-14 | Happy Library Lovers Day! |
| Love Data Week - My Kind of Data | 2024-02-12 | Data is personal |
| Celebrating Safer Internet Day | 2024-02-05 | As we embrace the digital age, ensuring a safer online environment becomes increasingly vital, especially for our younger users |
| Wikipedia and/as Data 2024 | 2024-01-31 | What is Wikipedia’s relationship to data? What should Wikipedia’s relationship to data be? |
| Wikimedia Australia January 2024 Update | 2024-01-31 | Our latest newsletter |
| Call Out for WikiCon Australia 2024 Planning Subcommittee | 2024-01-24 | WikiCon Brisbane 2023 was a great success but we want to do even better! |
| EPA Victoria WiR January 2024 Update | 2024-01-04 | Wikipedian in Residence explores legal topics and environmental matters at EPA Victoria. |
| 2024 Partner Projects Announced | 2024-01-02 | Wikimedia Australia announce the awarding of four grants to partner organisations in 2024 |
| Public Domain Day 2024 | 2024-01-01 | Today is Public Domain Day! |
| Wikimedia Australia December 2023 Update | 2023-12-19 | Our final newsletter for 2023 |
| 2023 A year of moving and shaking for Wikimedia Australia | 2023-12-13 | 2023 has been another big year for Wikimedia Australia. |
| Announcing Wikimania 2024 | 2023-12-12 | Wikimania dates have been announced for August 7-10, 2024 in Poland. |
| International Volunteer Day | 2023-12-04 | Celebrating the contributions of Kerry Raymond |
| Wikimedia Australia November 2023 Update | 2023-11-29 | Our latest newsletter |
| Wikisource turns 20 | 2023-11-27 | Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Wikisource |
| News/Wikimedia Australia October 2023 update | 2023-10-31 | Our latest newsletter |
| EOI Partner Projects 2024 | 2023-10-24 | NOW CLOSED. Apply for funding to engage Australian audiences with one or more Wikimedia platforms and collections |
| Writing Women Back into History Through Wikidata | 2023-10-16 | Brodie Hoare's Wikidata Fellow Report, 2023 |
| Wikimedia Australia Partner Projects highly successful | 2023-10-11 | Four of our Partner Projects have now concluded with successful outcomes for the organisations and Wikimedia platforms. |
| Wikimedia Australia September 2023 update | 2023-09-26 | Our latest newsletter |
| Announcing WikiCon 2023 Brisbane | 2023-09-19 | Wikimedia Australia is delighted to announce our 2023 national conference |
| Linking ACMI to Wikidata | 2023-08-25 | Part of our Partner Projects |
| End of The Record | 2023-08-24 | A project about Australian music on Wikipedia |
| Digitising Queensland’s historic photographs at Queensland University of Technology | 2023-08-11 | Part of our Partner Projects |
| What to see at Wikimania 2023 | 2023-08-08 | Presentations from the Australian community |
| Craig Franklin Award 2023 | 2023-08-07 | Announcing the inaugural Craig Franklin Award |
| Adding Australian Women in Religion to more Wikimedia projects | 2023-08-04 | Part of our Partner Projects |
| Adding Citations to Wikipedia from Trove | 2023-07-30 | A how-to guide |
| Bringing local knowledge to Wikipedia | 2023-07-28 | Part of our Partner Projects |
| Where's The Source | 2023-07-24 | Library & Information Week 2023 |
| My Experience as First Nations Wikipedian in Residence | 2023-07-21 | Bianca Valentino explored First Nations music at State Library of Queensland |
| Wikimedia Australia’s July 2023 update | 2023-07-20 | Our latest newsletter |
| The Popularity of Wikipedia in Australia | 2023-07-15 | Australians are the fifth most active Wikipedia editors in the world! |
| Now Posting On Threads | 2023-07-06 | There's another way to follow us on social media |
| Social Media Stats 2022-2023 | 2023-07-05 | Wikimedia Australia's social media stats are growing! |
| Wikimedia Australia’s June 2023 update | 2023-06-28 | Our latest newsletter |
| Introducing: Wikipedia - Workshop and Drop In Sessions | 2023-06-21 | Learn how you can contribute to (and improve) the world's largest free encyclopedia! |
| Join us in the free knowledge ecosystem | 2023-06-13 | A guest post from APO |
| Wikimedia Australia’s May 2023 update | 2023-05-28 | Our latest newsletter |
| Announcing our First Nations Wikipedian In Residence | 2023-05-26 | In partnership with Australia Council for the Arts and State Library of Queensland |
| Australian WikiProjects and Popular Pages | 2023-05-24 | Observations on popular Australian Wikipedia pages |
| How To Join a WikiProject on Wikipedia | 2023-05-17 | Find your community and join a WikiProject |
| 1Lib1Ref 2023 | 2023-05-05 | Add references and improve Wikipedia |
| Where To Find References For Wikipedia | 2023-04-26 | Are you using these six resources? |
| Wikimedia Australia’s April 2023 update | 2023-04-24 | Our latest newsletter |
| Wikimedia Australia 2023 Partners Focus On Diverse Content and Building Skills | 2023-04-19 | Announcing our 2023 Partner Projects outcomes |
| Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows | 2023-03-24 | In partnership with Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand |
| Wikimedia Australia’s March 2023 update | 2023-03-22 | Our latest newsletter |
| Wikimedia Australia and First Nations Metadata: ATSILIRN Protocols for Description and Access | 2023-03-22 | A discussion paper by Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan Sentance, and Lauren Booker |
| Three ways GLAM organisations add to Wikimedia projects | 2023-03-21 | The contributions of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, & Museums to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons benefit everyone |
| In Support of Trove | 2023-03-17 | Trove makes Australia's cultural history freely available to us all. We must save it! |
| Wikipedia For Beginners Video Series | 2023-03-15 | New Wikipedia tutorials on YouTube |
| Know My Name 2023 | 2023-03-14 | An annual event to address gender inequality |
| More Than A Day | 2023-03-08 | A new series of video tutorials to get you started using Wikipedia |
| Wikimedia Australia’s February 2023 update | 2023-02-24 | Our latest newsletter |
| How culturally diverse communities are using Wikipedia | 2023-02-13 | Communities in Australia and beyond share how they preserve and share histories |
| First Nations Wikipedian in Residence | 2023-02-09 | Improve First Nations music coverage on Wikipedia |
| EOI for Wikimedia Australia Partner Projects 2023 | 2023-02-02 | Funding your next project |
| Editing Wikipedia - The Basics | 2023-01-31 | Learn the basics at these free online sessions |
| Wikimedia Australia’s January 2023 update | 2023-01-27 | Our latest newsletter |
| Wikimania 2023 Scholarships Open | 2023-01-18 | Wikimania will be held in Singapore this August |
| Trove - A Treasure Trove of Australian Content | 2023-01-10 | A useful tool to find and add Australian references to Wikipedia |
| Wikimedian In Residence Wrap Up | 2022-12-23 | James Gaunt on twelve weeks with the Australian Music Vault |
| Wikimedia Australia’s December 2022 update | 2022-12-23 | Our latest newsletter |
| ESEAP 2022 | 2022-12-16 | The 2022 conference in Sydney bringing together Wikimedians from East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. |
| 2022's Most Viewed Wikipedia Pages In Australia | 2022-12-12 | A 2022 Wikipedia Wrap Up |
| Wikimedia Australia’s November 2022 update | 2022-11-30 | Our latest newsletter |
| Worlds of Wikimedia 2022 | 2022-11-23 | WOW Conference 17-18 November 2022 |
| Adding Australian Music To Wikipedia | 2022-11-11 | Increasing discoverability of Australian artists |
| Making Australian Music Visible | 2022-11-04 | A guide to uploading images onto Wikimedia Commons |
| Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia | 2022-10-31 | A guest post by Tim Sherratt |
| Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand launch 2023 Wikidata Fellowship | 2022-10-28 | We're offering Wikidata fellowships grants worth $1000 each |
| Wikimedia Australia’s October 2022 update | 2022-10-28 | Our latest newsletter |
| Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata | 2022-10-12 | How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata |
| Wikidata Turns 10 | 2022-10-03 | Celebrating 10 years of Wikidata with tutorials and local events |
| Wikimedia Australia’s September 2022 update | 2022-09-29 | Our latest newsletter |
| Misinformation and Wikipedia | 2022-09-28 | A Symposium from University of Canberra |
| Wikimedia Australia Drop In Sessions | 2022-09-28 | Drop in and join us with any Wikipedia questions you have |
| Announcing our new Executive Officer | 2022-09-21 | Welcoming Belinda Spry to Wikimedia Australia |
| Subscribe To Our Newsletter | 2022-08-31 | Wikimedia Australia relaunches public e-newsletter |
| Wikimedia Australia’s August 2022 update | 2022-08-31 | Our latest newsletter |
| Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata | 2022-08-24 | Wikidata Fellow Kerrie Burn on her project investigating Wikidata and data visualisation. |
| Wiki Loves Earth winners announced for 2022 | 2022-08-20 | Australia's most popular open access photography competition has crowned this year's winners |
| Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata | 2022-08-01 | Wikidata Fellow Dr Margaret Donald on her project populating Wikidata with Australian animals. |
| Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data | 2022-07-21 | Wikimedia Australia develop a new module automating the updating of population data |
| Mapping the Barassi Line | 2022-07-20 | Wikidata Fellow Brett Tweedie on his project exploring the great football divide in Australia |
| New Wikimedian in Residence explores Australian music content | 2022-07-18 | Wikimedian James Gaunt undertakes new residency at Australian Music Vault |
| Wikimedia Australia to host ESEAP Conference | 2022-07-01 | Apply for up travel assistance to join us in Sydney in November |
| Over 1000 references added for 1Lib1Ref | 2022-06-09 | Librarians across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand unite to improve Wikipedia |
| Inaugural Wikidata Fellows announced | 2022-03-23 | Meet the new Wikidata Fellows for 2022! |
| Wikimedia Australia launches a new GLAMR training program | 2022-03-16 | Explore Wikimedia platforms and projects that could extend your collections and engagement |
| Gender equity on Wikipedia forms part of new NGA plan | 2022-03-08 | Wikimedia Australia's partnership with the National Gallery of Australia forms part of its new Gender Equity Plan |
| Paralympic history made visible | 2022-02-23 | How one of Australia’s longest running and successful Wikipedia equity projects is preserving Australian paralympic history |
| Wikimedia Australia launches inaugural Wikidata Fellowship | 2022-01-10 | Wikimedia Australia is offering two Wikidata fellowships grants worth $1000 each |
| Putting Australian music on the record | 2021-11-30 | New Wikipedia projects aims to increase discoverability of Australian artists |
| Wikipedian Ann Reynolds recognised for closing the gender gap on Wikipedia | 2021-11-28 | Wikimedian Ann Reynolds receives a 2021 EDNA Award for Community Activism. |
| ADM+S Wikimedian-in-Residence Program | 2021-09-30 | |
| What I learnt interning with Wikimedia Australia | 2021-09-29 | James Gaunt reflects on being Wikimedia Australia's first intern |
| Writing for the Digital World - how Australian tertiary students are writing Wikipedia | 2021-09-28 | |
| Using Mix’n’Match to make connections on Wikidata | 2021-08-25 | An easy to use tool for the whole community |
| Writing wrongs: Giving women artists their rightful place in history | 2021-08-20 | A partnership with the National Gallery of Australia |
| How Australian libraries are turning to Wikipedia during the global pandemic | 2021-08-13 | Libraries everywhere are adding to Wikipedia |
| Wiki Loves Earth winners announced for 2021 | 2021-07-30 | Fifteen stunning photographs are crowned winners of Australia's most popular open access photography competition |
| New look for the WMAU website | 2021-07-20 | A new MediaWiki skin was enabled for wikimedia.org.au |
| Wikidata and R: a perfect pair | 2021-06-03 | Introducing WikidataR: A new package linking the open source programming language R and Wikidata |
| Four years of Women Write Wiki | 2021-03-15 | One of Australia's longest-running editing groups celebrates four years |
| Wikipedia Turns 20 | 2021-01-14 | Let's celebrate! |
| Wikiclub NT | 2020-10-01 | How a Wikipedia club added NT history online |
| ABC Sydney radio interview, October 2018 | 2018-10-17 | Listen back to a recording |
| University of Western Australia | 2016-01-01 | The Noongarpedia Partner Project |
| October 2015 Melbourne meetup | 2015-10-22 | Our 30th meetup held in Melbourne |
| October wikiD Workshop held in Melbourne | 2015-10-11 | The second wikiD: Women, Wikipedia, design |
| Melbourne meetup, October 20 2015 | 2015-10-05 | Join us at Federation Square |
| WikiD Workshop, Sunday 11 October 2015 | 2015-10-05 | To be held at MADA Monash University in Melbourne |
| WikiD Writing Workshop held in Melbourne | 2015-09-13 | A Wikipedia workshop was held at Monash University in Melbourne, as part of the WikiD project. |
| August 2015 Melbourne meetup | 2015-09-01 | A short report |
| Filling in the gaps with Queensland photo runs | 2015-08-20 | Many major Australian cities have articles about places and buildings in them which have not been systematically photographed. |
| Melbourne meetup, Wednesday August 12 2015 | 2015-07-19 | An invitation to all Wikimedians |
| July 2015 Perth Meetup | 2015-07-18 | A short report |
| June 2015 Melbourne meetup | 2015-06-28 | A short report |
| What do our new laws mean for free content in Australia? | 2015-06-26 | Creative Commons, Copyright, and Australian Laws |
| Perth meetup, Saturday July 18 2015 | 2015-06-25 | All Wikimedians are invited |
| Melbourne meetup, Sunday June 28 2015 | 2015-06-18 | All Wikimedians are invited |
| Wikimedia Australia at the Australian International Airshow | 2015-03-07 | Wikimedians visit Avalon |
Wikimedia Australia also post updates on This Month in GLAM, where they also previously posted shared reports with New Zealand (2011-2017).