Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.

1Lib1Ref stands for one librarian, one reference. It's a campaign by librarians around the world (and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge) to add a missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Australia is hosting drop in sessions during every Tuesday from 10am and Thursday from midday in our Online Community room.

You don't need to attend the whole time! Just drop in to learn how to add your reference (and get sent a free laptop sticker too!)

Wikipedia is one of the first stops for readers and researchers. It’s an especially important resource now, during COVID-19, when people are increasingly turning to the platform for trustworthy, unbiased, and up-to-date information. Join us to help improve the quality of content on Wikipedia for the billions of people staying at home during this public health crisis.

Google calendar invite: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MTIzZjJuZ2hxYTFidjN2dXBtZTYyMDR0bGhfMjAyMTA1MjVUMDAwMDAwWiBjYWRkaWUuYnJhaW5Ad2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZy5hdQ&tmsrc=caddie.brain%40wikimedia.org.au&scp=ALL

Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.

1Lib1Ref stands for one librarian, one reference. It's a campaign by librarians around the world (and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge) to add a missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Australia is hosting drop in sessions during every Tuesday from 10am and Thursday from midday in our Online Community room.

You don't need to attend the whole time! Just drop in to learn how to add your reference (and get sent a free laptop sticker too!)

Wikipedia is one of the first stops for readers and researchers. It’s an especially important resource now, during COVID-19, when people are increasingly turning to the platform for trustworthy, unbiased, and up-to-date information. Join us to help improve the quality of content on Wikipedia for the billions of people staying at home during this public health crisis.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99382570078

Google calendar invite: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mml1YzluZmlxMjA0YmlyMzM2YmU3Z2hkaTFfMjAyMTA1MjBUMDIwMDAwWiBjYWRkaWUuYnJhaW5Ad2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZy5hdQ&tmsrc=caddie.brain%40wikimedia.org.au&scp=ALL

Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.

1Lib1Ref stands for one librarian, one reference. It's a campaign by librarians around the world (and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge) to add a missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Australia is hosting drop in sessions during every Tuesday from 10am and Thursday from midday in our Online Community room.

You don't need to attend the whole time! Just drop in to learn how to add your reference (and get sent a free laptop sticker too!)

Wikipedia is one of the first stops for readers and researchers. It’s an especially important resource now, during COVID-19, when people are increasingly turning to the platform for trustworthy, unbiased, and up-to-date information. Join us to help improve the quality of content on Wikipedia for the billions of people staying at home during this public health crisis.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99382570078

Google calendar invite: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mml1YzluZmlxMjA0YmlyMzM2YmU3Z2hkaTFfMjAyMTA1MjdUMDIwMDAwWiBjYWRkaWUuYnJhaW5Ad2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZy5hdQ&tmsrc=caddie.brain%40wikimedia.org.au&scp=ALL

Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.

1Lib1Ref stands for one librarian, one reference. It's a campaign by librarians around the world (and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge) to add a missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Australia is hosting drop in sessions during every Tuesday from 10am and Thursday from midday in our Online Community room.

You don't need to attend the whole time! Just drop in to learn how to add your reference (and get sent a free laptop sticker too!)

Wikipedia is one of the first stops for readers and researchers. It’s an especially important resource now, during COVID-19, when people are increasingly turning to the platform for trustworthy, unbiased, and up-to-date information. Join us to help improve the quality of content on Wikipedia for the billions of people staying at home during this public health crisis.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99382570078

Google calendar invite: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mml1YzluZmlxMjA0YmlyMzM2YmU3Z2hkaTFfMjAyMTA1MjdUMDIwMDAwWiBjYWRkaWUuYnJhaW5Ad2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZy5hdQ&tmsrc=caddie.brain%40wikimedia.org.au&scp=ALL

Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.

1Lib1Ref stands for one librarian, one reference. It's a campaign by librarians around the world (and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge) to add a missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Australia is hosting drop in sessions during every Tuesday from 10am and Thursday from midday in our Online Community room.

You don't need to attend the whole time! Just drop in to learn how to add your reference with Kerry Raymond (and get sent a free laptop sticker too!)

Wikipedia is one of the first stops for readers and researchers. It’s an especially important resource now, during COVID-19, when people are increasingly turning to the platform for trustworthy, unbiased, and up-to-date information. Join us to help improve the quality of content on Wikipedia for the billions of people staying at home during this public health crisis.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99382570078

Google calendar invite: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MTIzZjJuZ2hxYTFidjN2dXBtZTYyMDR0bGhfMjAyMTA2MDFUMDAwMDAwWiBjYWRkaWUuYnJhaW5Ad2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZy5hdQ&tmsrc=caddie.brain%40wikimedia.org.au&scp=ALL

Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to Wikipedia.

1Lib1Ref stands for one librarian, one reference. It's a campaign by librarians around the world (and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge) to add a missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Australia is hosting drop in sessions during every Tuesday from 10am and Thursday from midday in our Online Community room.

You don't need to attend the whole time! Just drop in to learn how to add your reference (and get sent a free laptop sticker too!)

Wikipedia is one of the first stops for readers and researchers. It’s an especially important resource now, during COVID-19, when people are increasingly turning to the platform for trustworthy, unbiased, and up-to-date information. Join us to help improve the quality of content on Wikipedia for the billions of people staying at home during this public health crisis.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99382570078

Google calendar invite: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mml1YzluZmlxMjA0YmlyMzM2YmU3Z2hkaTFfMjAyMTA2MDNUMDIwMDAwWiBjYWRkaWUuYnJhaW5Ad2lraW1lZGlhLm9yZy5hdQ&tmsrc=caddie.brain%40wikimedia.org.au&scp=ALL

This event will be for the public to bring, photos, documents, and small objects related to the Canning area and its history. The items will be digitized to be included with the City of Canning History Collection, and selected items uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The person owning the item will be asked to complete a release suitable for re-use as well as tell the story behind the item. Please bring a USB to take home your own copy of the digitized file.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the movement in accomplishing objectives and overcoming obstacles? How can it help people in the movement solve problems? What does the movement most want from the Wikimedia Foundation — and how might better communications help?

The Wikimedia Foundation conducted a series of focus groups with participants across communities to explore these questions. They have synthesized the findings into six key recommendations for how the Foundation can better support communities through communications.

Elena Lappen from the Movement Communications team will be joining our July community meeting to discuss the findings and their impact on the Foundation’s new Annual Plan. She will lead a discussion on how to utilise these findings in support of the Australian community and larger regional community.

The six recommendations: meta:Movement communications insights/Report/Introduction

More about Elena Lappen: meta:User:ELappen (WMF)

Join Franklin Women on Thursday 25th July (the birthday of our namesake, Rosalind Franklin) to increase the visibility on Wikipedia of women who have made important contributions to the health and medical research sector, as well as increase the number of women who have the skills to become Wikipedia editors.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, it’s the 6th most visited website on the internet. Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors.

It has long been acknowledged that there is a lack of diversity among contributors.

People are meeting up across the world to help remedy the imbalance and bias in the diversity of voices on Wikipedia. The City of Sydney Library has joined this movement, hosting edit-a-thons to increase and improve content relevant to our diverse communities.

Everyone is welcome to join our online edit-a-thon. It will be led by Kirsten Thorpe, Nathan “Mudyi” Sentance, and experienced Wikipedia editors Toby Hudson and Caddie Brain. Kirsten’s professional and research interests relate to Indigenous self-determination in libraries and archives. Nathan works to ensure that the cultural and historical narratives conveyed by memory institutions are being told and controlled by First Nations people. With their help, participants will focus on improving articles of importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on Wikipedia.

No experience is necessary to join the edit-a-thon. Bring your own laptop or tablet and connect to our free wi-fi or use one of our devices. (A limited number of library devices will be available for use at the event).

Participants are encouraged to set up a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop.

Event Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/City_of_Sydney/First_Nations_Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_(When)/home

Just 18% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower.

Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia as part of the Know My Name initiative to enhance understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women.

Become part of the Wikipedia community of volunteers who collaboratively create and maintain the world’s largest and most popular research tools. On the weekend of International Women's Day, Wikimedia Australia’s Caddie Brain and the Gallery’s Research Library staff are holding an interactive four-hour workshop where you can learn to edit and make new entries to Wikipedia. You will have the opportunity to create a new page on a selected Australian woman artist.

Places are limited so register here: https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/wikipedia-edit-thon/

Speakers:

• Dr Tasha Weir manages the SAGE Athena Swan program at La Trobe University.
• Dr Quinn Eades is a Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow, writer, and award-winning poet whose work lies at the nexus of feminist and queer theories of the body, autobiography, and philosophy.
• Dr Thomas Shafee is part of the library’s scholarly publishing and academic engagement team, and our resident wiki ninja

The Australian Wikimedia community meets monthly. Every second month there is an open community meeting (like this one!) followed by a seminar from special guests alternate months.

Attendance, presentations, questions or discussion points are welcome from anyone! Add yours to the agenda here. Zoom link here