Ongoing and Past Partnerships
Wikimedia Australia works with a wide range of organisations across Australia. Partnerships have included edit-a-thons and training, both in person and online, and our Wikimedian in Resident program. Read more about the Wikimedia Resident and Scholar Program here.
If you're interested in discussing a partnership opportunity contact us anytime at: contact@wikimedia.org.au
Ongoing and Past Partnerships
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GLAM Peak
Wikimedia Australia was a technology partner for the 2017-2018 GLAM Peak regional Digital Access to Collections workshops. See also: GLAM Peak activity reports
Gold Coast Libraries
In partnership with Wikimedia Australia and La Trobe University, Gold Coast Libraries hosted a Wikipedia training day at their Palm Beach Community Lounge and Library in June 2013. Read the full report here.
Hobart Polytechnic
In 2012, Wikimedia Australia and Skills Tasmania supported a Wikipedia training day at Hobart Polytechnic where volunteers looked at the various Wikimedia projects and created new Wikipedia pages. Read the full report here.
Inspiring SA
Wikimedia Australia and Inspiring SA ran training sessions in Adelaide to improve local Wikipedia content about STEMM (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine). Read more here.
Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research
In 2022, Wikimedia Australia funded a discussion paper to help understand how the Wikimedia movement could better support First Nations content, data, and contributors on Wikimedia platforms and beyond. Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan Sentance, and Lauren Booker from the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research (JIIER) undertook the project. Read more here.
La Trobe University
Between 2013-2015, La Trobe University partnered with Wikimedia Australia on a number of Wikipedia training days across Australia. These included partnerships with Bendigo Community Health Services, Gold Coast Libraries, and LaTrobe Oral Health.
In 2018, staff at the university launched Shut up and Wiki, an informal community ton devote time to editing, writing, and developing Wiki resources. Read more here.
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney ran an edit-at-thon in 2013 to improve the coverage of women artists on Wikipedia. The event was covered by The Sydney Morning Herald. Read the report here.
Museum of Perth
Between 2018-19, Museum of Perth hosted a Wikipedian in Residence and projects including writing Wikipedia articles about current and historic Western Australian newspapers. Read more here on Wikipedia GLAM.
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
As part of their Know My Name initiative, NGA and Wikimedia Australia have worked together to increase the number of Wikipedia pages about female artists as part of a joint gender equity campaign. Read more about the project here and read more about the 2023 Know My Name event here.
National Library of Australia & Trove
We have run several editathons and training with National Library of Australia, including a session to create Wikipedia pages about the archived newspapers available in Trove in 2013. Between 2018-2020, Wikimedia Australia was represented on the Trove Consultative Committee by our President, Pru Mitchell.
Trove is also incredibly important to us because of the amount of Australian content they make available online. Read more about why we love Trove here.
National Trust
In 2019, as part of the Australian Heritage Festival, National Trust (Victoria) convened an evening workshop with Alex Lum and Pru Mitchell of Wikimedia Australia to raise awareness of the project and work on plans to add public art works to Wikidata.
Open Access Australasia
Open Access Australasia works to make Australasian research outputs open for all. Wikimedia Australia is a member and has supported their annual events since 2021. Read more here.
Paralympics Australia
The Paralympic History project is creating articles about Paralympic sport generally and the Paralympic movement in Australia. This has included events held across Australia to improve coverage of Australian Paralympians. Read more:
- Paralympic history made visible
- History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia
- About the Paralympic History project
- Report: Wikipedia training day, Kingston Library Tasmania
- Paralympics Australia: The Australian Paralympic History Project.
Powerhouse Museum
The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney released images with no known copyright restrictions that were then incorporated into Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Australia partnered with the Powerhouse to run a Backstage Pass event for our members to share experiences between editors and curators. Read more about this session on their blog here.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
QUT received funding as part of our Partner Projects to run a digitisation project to upload and describe historic photographic material pertaining to rural Queensland. Read more here.
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State Library of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia has regularly hosted WikiClub West, hosting workshops and giving Wikimedians a space to run their activities. In 2017, Western Australian Wikimedians started a three-month-long residency in the BiblioTECH incubator space at the State Library of Western Australia. Read more about WikiClub West at the State Library here.
State Records Office, Western Australia (SROWA)
The SROWA assisted with the Freopedia QRpedia project, with support from their staff and records access. This included the release of a number of maps under a CC-by-SA license allowing them to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and their staff also provided other records from their collections. Read more:
University of Canberra
RecentChangesCamp2012 was a OpenSpace unconference focused on wikis and online collaborative practices, held in Canberra from 20 - 22 January 2012. This event was supported by several Wikimedians and members of the wider Australian wiki community. Wikimedia Australia provided travel grants for Australians and New Zealanders who wished to attend but were unable to afford travel. Read the report on 2012's unconference here. Wikimedia Australia had also sponsored RecentChangesCamp2011.
University of Divinity
Wikimedia Australia has partnered with the University of Divinity on the Australian Women in Religion Project being spearheaded by Kerrie Burn. The project aims to create 100 new articles on Women in Religion. Read more about their projects here. They also received funding to host a resident as part of our Partner Projects.
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne hosted an event as part of Research@library Week in August 2017 to improve the representation of women researchers on Wikipedia. The university is also partner in the Australian Women's Archive Project, and following 2017's event their dataset was added to Wikidata by Wikimedia Australia members and the wider community. Read more here.
In 2019, the university hosted the International Digital Curation Conference. Wikimedia Australia was represented at IDCC19 by Dr Thomas Shafee, who presented a session titled: Wikipedia-integrated academic journals: Ideal platforms for outreach and public communication. Read more here.
University of NSW
UNSW Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications have partnered with us to deliver an annual Women in STEM edit-a-thon. Read more here.
University of Sydney
Wikimedia Australia supported Wikimedia in Higher Education, a one day symposium held in 2013. Read our members report here.
Since 2018, University of Sydney students have contributed to Wikipedia as part of their Writing for the Digital World studies. Read more here.
In 2019 and 2022 University of Sydney hosted Worlds of Wikimedia, a Wikimedia conference featuring presentations relating to academic work around Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Read about 2019 here, and 2022 here.
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
Wikimedia Australia supported contributors from New Zealand for several years, and since Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand was founded we have partnered on projects such as the 2023 Wikidata Fellowships.
WOMEESA
The Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences in Australasia (WOMEESA) network have partnered with us organising its Wikipedia edit-a-thons where we meet and work together to create, edit, and improve Wikipedia pages of notable women in the field of Earth and Environmental sciences in Australasia. This have run annually since 2022.
Women's Art Register
We have partnered on regular Art+Feminism edit-a-thons to improve content on women artists and creators. Read more here.
Women Write Wiki
A monthly women's editing group at Newtown Women's Library who meet to improve the representation of Australian and Pacific women writers on Wikipedia. Read more here.
Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Yarra Plenty Regional Library have taken part in 1Lib1Ref during 2019 and 2020. Read the 1Lib1Ref 2019 & 2020 Report here. In 2022 they took part in an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon for International Women's Day where they created 35 new pages. See the Dashboard here.
See Also: Past Events
See Past events for a full list of events previously run in partnership with Wikimedia Australia.