Wikimedia Australia August 2026 Update

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Our August update: our last Wiki Loves Pride session, Partner Project EOI open, a new podcast and lots of opportunities to attend meet-ups.

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The last Wiki Loves Pride session on Wear It Purple Day

Our sixth and final fortnightly Wiki Loves Pride Australia session for 2026 ran on 28 August 2026 and it happened to land on Wear It Purple Day, which supports LGBTQIA+ young people. A fitting way to close out a winter of drop-in editing bees, improving LGBTQ+ representation across Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata.

Globally, the Wiki Loves Pride contest run by Wikimedia LGBT+ has already produced 555 new, expanded or translated articles this year, including Australian and New Zealand entries like Pride celebrations in Australia, Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp and Bobby Goldsmith. Come help add one more before judging begins.

See what we've achieved.

Partner Projects 2026–27: expressions of interest now open

Wikimedia Australia is inviting Expressions of Interest from Australian organisations and individuals for projects that grow free knowledge and strive for knowledge equity. Up to three projects will be funded this round, each worth between $3,000 and $10,000 which can be used for hosting a Wikimedian-in-Residence, running editathons or training, uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons, or building tools that integrate with Wikidata.

Australian organisations and individuals are both welcome to apply. Projects must be undertaken in accordance with our new Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty Guide.

Expressions of interest close Monday 14 September. Come to our FAQ session if you'd like to know more about Partner Projects and talk through your ideas.

Apply now.

New podcast about Australia on Wikipedia

All That We Touch: Wikipedia, is a new a six-part podcast from the wikihistories research project at UTS, hosted by Professor Heather Ford, journalist Richard Cooke and Dr Francesca Sidoti.

The series covers how Wikipedia formed, its three big fights over what counts as knowledge, whether it can survive generative AI, a listener quiz, and a practical episode for teachers, students and librarians - plus an episode examining the gaps, "Australia and Wikipedia: the bias in the map." Wikimedia Australia gets a mention too!

Listen now

What to do? Make it blue!

What to blue? is one of four sister tools under whattodo.toolforge.org (a Toolforge app called SwitchMaster, built to "help find articles to improve or create"). It's a red-link prioritiser. You pick a target wiki (language code), a WikiProject/topic area, and an importance tier (Top/High/Mid/Low/Any). It returns the redlinks in that subject that already have the most incoming links from existing articles — i.e. topics other editors have already tried to link to, so they're proven-wanted and won't sit orphaned once created.

Give it a whirl!

Upcoming events

Events happening online and around Australia in the next few weeks.

Other things from around the web

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