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

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ACMI In 2023, ACMI received funding to host a resident as part of our Partner Projects. Through this project ACMI’s extensive collection of biographies and films has been cross-referenced and integrated into Wikidata.

Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO) Since 2018, APO and Wikimedia Australia have partnered on events and workshops to further both organisations mission to advocate for open access. We participated in their, and more recently have supported their project, The Missing Link.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society A new Wikipedian in Residence program at ADM+S started in 2021 to improve Wikipedia articles related to automation technologies, and run events

Australian Academy of Science In August 2014, to celebrate National Science Week, the Academy held their first "Wikibomb". Over 140 people registered to help us increase the presence of Australian women of science, engineering, and mathematics on Wikipedia. Through online and physical events in Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, participants created 118 new pages.

Australia Council for the Arts Since 2021, the Australia Council for the Arts has partnered with us on The Record: Australian Music On Wikipedia, a project to increase the number of Wikipedia articles about Australian music. Other partners of The Record include Australian Music Vault, Australian Music Centre, Country Music Association of Australia, and APRA AMCOS.

Australian Performing Arts Collection (APAC) After partnering with us on The Record, APAC hosted a 10 week Wikimedian In Residence, allowing access to their collections and Australian Music Vault exhibition space.

Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) Wikimedian in Residence Andy Mabbett presented at the [] about Wikimedia projects on five continents. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YGRhBzNHg Watch the full presentation here.]

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) We have assisted with librarian training and workshops and have presented at ALIA conferences

APNIC Foundation The APNIC Foundation’s mission is to increase investment in Internet development in the Asia Pacific region. From 2024 to 2025, we undertook the digitisation of the Ian Peter Archive.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia In 2023, Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia received a Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) Local History Grant to digitise the publications of Victoria’s Field Naturalists’ Clubs. Additional funding from Wikimedia Australia as part of the 2024 Partner Projects, expands on this incredibly important work and make it freely accessible and discoverable on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

Bendigo Community Health Services In 2013, Bendigo Community Health Services hosted a Wikipedia training day in partnership with La Trobe University (Bendigo Campus) and Wikimedia Australia. It was aimed at health information professionals across the region, and open to other information community groups too

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City of Canning With the City of Canning, Wikimedia Australia and its WA branch [[WikiClubWest]], gave a series of introduction sessions to Wikipedia and digitisation of materials in 2019.

City of Fremantle The Freopedia QRpedia project was set up in 2012 in collaboration with the Fremantle Society and the Fremantle Business Improvement District (BID).

City of Sydney We run regular themed edit-a-thons at the City of Sydney libraries aim to address bias and grow diversity on Wikipedia.

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Environment Centre Northern Territory The Environment Centre Northern Territory was successfully awarded funding through Wikimedia Australia's 2024 Partner Projects to engage local Wikipedian, Caddie Brain, to help grow Wikipedia pages related to the Northern Territory

Environmental Protection Agency Victoria In 2024, Olivia Fougerais worked as Wikipedian in Residence with the EPA Victoria to expand Australian environmental knowledge on Wikipedia. Their work will included adding new references and information to Victorian and Australian pages as well as creating new Wikipedia articles and writing blog posts

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Franklin Women A partnership to deliver an annual women in medical sciences edit-a-thon. In 2023, Franklin Women released a series of Wikipedia training videos called More Than A Day, in partnership with Wikimedia Australia.

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GLAM Peak Wikimedia Australia was a technology partner for the 2017-2018 GLAM Peak regional Digital Access to Collections workshops

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.

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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

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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)

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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.

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La Trobe University La Trobe University staff have long supported Wikimedia Australia activities including training, research and developing wiki resources.

Libraries Tasmania (formerly LINC Tasmania) As part of the History of Paralympic Australia project, Wikimedia Australia, the Australian Paralympic Committee, and Libraries Tasmania hosted a Wikipedia training day at Kingston Library, Tasmania in February 2012. Wikipedia pages relating to Tasmania were improved and created during the event.

Library and Information Science WikiProject Identifying and filling gaps in library and information science (LIS)-related content on Wikimedia platforms.

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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''.

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.

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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.

National Library of Australia and Trove We have run several editathons and training with National Library of Australia and Wikimedia Australia regularly highlights Trove as an excellent resource for people contributing to Wikipedia

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.

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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

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Paralympics Australia The Paralympic History project is creating articles about Paralympic sport generally and the Paralympic movement in Australia.

Powerhouse Museum The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney released images with no known copyright restrictions that were then incorporated into Wikimedia projects.

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.

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Seniors Recreation Council of WA In 2019, The Seniors Recreation Council of WA held their Be Connected Seniors Tech Expo, a ‘Tech Savvy Seniors’ event, which Wikimedia Australia had a table. Later that year we attended Have a Go Day to engage with more people.

Shire of Paroo Paroo Shire Council received funding as part of our Partner Projects to train a group of editors including First Nations people to contribute both regional data and local Indigenous knowledge, which can then serve as a model for other regional councils.

Standardised Data on Initiatives (STARDIT) STARDIT is a standardised way to share information about who was involved in an initiative, what was done, what was learned and any impacts which occurred. Wikimedia Australia is supporting this project in its early development.

State Library New South Wales SLNSW was the first institution to host a Wikipedian In Residence in Australia in 2013. Since then we have partnered on #1Lib1Ref, Wikimedia seminars, and more. The library have also noted SLNSW content on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons led to increased traffic to their website.

State Library of Queensland Since 2010 SLQ have hosted regular Wikipedia events, including #1Lib1Ref, and donated thousands of images to Wikimedia Commons. They have also supported editing workshops, including regional visits to train people in Tambo and Quilpie, and in 2023 hosted our First Nations Wikipedian in Residence.

State Library of Western Australia The State Library of Western Australia has regularly hosted WikiClubWest, facilitating 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.

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 several 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

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Toodyaypedia WikiTown project Toodyaypedia WikiTown project involved creating articles and placing QR codes on landmarks in the Western Australian town, in collaboration with the Toodyay Historical Society. In 2014, seven Wikimedians travelled by bus from Perth to Toodyay to prepare for WikiTown Toodyay. The project was Australia's Cool Project presented at Wikimania 2014.

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University of Canberra an 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.

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.

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.

University of NSW We have been partnering since 2019 to hold a student led edit-a-thons to create profiles on Wikipedia highlighting the achievements of women in STEM.

University of Sydney Partnership with the University of Sydney to bring together researchers and editors at events and programs throughout the year.

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University of Western Australia A project addressing colonial legacy impact in rock art content on Wikipedia and beyond. Includes the Noongar Wikitionary and Noongar Wikipedia projects.

Waroona Tourist Centre In 2013, the Waroona Tourist Centre (with support from members of the Waroona Historical Society) teamed with Australian Wikimedians to hold an event to get more photographs of the Waroona region onto Wikimedia projects. Over 2000 photos were taken, with three photos awarded gifts after being judged by photographer Bob Litchfield.

Wikiclub NT Running from 2016-18, Wikiclub NT saw editors travel around Australia's Northern Territory adding NT history online.

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

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.

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.

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Yarra Plenty Regional Library Yarra Plenty Regional Library have taken part in 1Lib1Ref during 2019 and 2020. In 2022 they took part in an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon for International Women's Day where they created 35 new pages.