User:AmandaSLawrence

Dr. Amanda Lawrence - Wikimedia Australia President 2022 to 2024.

Dr Amanda Lawrence has been involved in the Wikimedia community in Australia for several years. She has held several key roles, including President of Wikimedia Australia from 2022 to 2024 and Secretary from 2021 to 2022.

Amanda is a researcher and librarian specialising in research publishing, digital collections, open knowledge, and public policy. She has actively participated in various Wikimedia projects on the Wikimedia Australia board.

In 2021, she took on the role of  Wikimedian-in-Residence for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, writing content for Wikipedia and hosting editathons to expand topics on automated design.

Amanda has also been an active advocate for open and free knowledge projects, regularly collaborating with Wikimedia Foundation staff to raise concerns around digital rights and governance of online public interest projects, including Wikipedia and its sister projects, both at an international level and in Australia.

Under her leadership, Wikimedia Australia has actively engaged Australian researchers and partners for Wikimedia projects, helped develop the East, South East Asia and Pacific Hub (ESEAP) with conferences in Sydney and Malaysia, participated in Wikimanias in Singapore and Poland, the WMF Summit in Berlin, Wikidata events in Taiwan and Wikimedia Australia’s first community conferences in Australia since 2019 - with Wikicon Australia in Brisbane 2023 and WikiCon in Adelaide 2024. During this time, she was also involved in assisting the organisation to undertake consultation with Indigenous communities on their experience and perspectives on engaging with Wikimedia.

Another of Amanda’s achievements has been supporting the establishment of the Craig Franklin Award, which recognises a project or program that has positively impacted the Wikimedia movement in Australia.

See AmandaSLawrence on the English Wikipedia for details of Amanda's Wikimedia activity.

Blog Posts

30 April 2024
To His Excellency Mr James Larsen, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations
13 December 2023
2023 has been another big year for Wikimedia Australia.
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