Wikimedia Australia October 2026 Update
Our latest newsletter
, Ali Smith.
News
What we've been up to in October 2026, plus our events and news from the wider Wikimedia and Open Knowledge movement.
29 October 2026
Phase 2 of our partnership with Terri Janke and Company will create on-wiki tools, training and resources for editors.
12 October 2026
Pangalau documents a conference for Wikipedia
7 October 2026
Looking up for World Space Week (4-10 October)
WikiWhiz — guess the day's Wikipedia article
WikiWhiz is a free daily guessing game, a bit like Wordle, where the answer is an English Wikipedia article. You get up to seven clues, starting vague and getting more specific. The clues come from across the Wikimedia projects: an image from Commons, a fact from Wikidata, a word origin from Wiktionary, and statistics about the article itself. Every guess has to be a real article title, and a wrong guess tells you how many links away you are from the answer. It was built by a volunteer and is available on Toolforge. It is also open source. Log in with your Wikimedia account to keep track of your streak.
Upcoming events
Events happening online and around Australia in the next few weeks.
- Perth Meetup 98 — Sunday 1 November 2026
A meetup for WA Wikimedians - Introduction to Wikipedia - November 2026 — Wednesday 4 November 2026
Learn how Wikipedia content is created - Drop in and Wiki - November 2026 — Thursday 5 November 2026
Join us online for a casual drop-in session to edit Wikipedia - Adelaide Exchange Meet Ups 2026 - November (Edit-a-thon 11) — Friday 6 November 2026
Monthly in-person and online meet up for Adelaide editors at the Exchange building, Adelaide - Physics Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — Monday 9 November 2026
All members of the Physics community (industry professionals, students, academics, teachers, etc) are invited to this networking and learning event in Sydney. - How Wikipedia represents Australia: findings from Wikihistories — Wednesday 11 November 2026
Which Australian people, places and historic events does Wikipedia tend to represent? What is missing and what explains Wikipedia’s biases? What does it mean to edit Wikipedia about Australian topics today? - Commons Catch Up - November 2026 — Thursday 12 November 2026
Bring your questions, your projects, or simply your curiosity and learn about Wikimedia Commons! - WikiCanberra - November 2026 — Saturday 14 November 2026
A monthly meet up for Canberra Wikimedians - Online Community Meeting - November 2026 — Monday 16 November 2026
(date change) The Australian Wikimedia community meets online monthly - Great Kiwi Aussie Summer Sizzle FAQ session — Wednesday 18 November 2026
Thinking of entering the Great Kiwi Aussie Summer Sizzle? Join us for a free online session to learn how to enter, and bring your questions. - Drop in and Wikidata - November 2026 — Thursday 26 November 2026
Join our monthly Wikidata drop in!
Other things from around the web
- Wikipedia's visual editor now warns editors when they paste text that looks like it came from an AI chatbot, and tags the edit for review - MediaWiki
- OpenAI "rogue" agent activity found on Wikimedia projects — what happened and how it was handled - Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedians believed AI would come and go. They were wrong — an excerpt from Australian journalist Richard Cooke's new book, The Last Best Place on the Internet - WIRED
- Trove lists Alice Springs Public Library's Central Australian Historical Images on Wikimedia Commons among its recommended NT family and local history resources - Trove
- The UK Met Office has made 54 million historical weather records from 95 countries freely available — the earliest is from Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1837 - Met Office
- How one writer put a selection of Wikipedia on a USB stick with Kiwix, readable anywhere without internet - MakeUseOf
- See which Wikipedia page each country read most yesterday, on a daily-updated world map - sheets.works
- A Library Out of Air is rallying editors to document radio and podcast history on Wikipedia — a chance to add Australian programs and stations too - Sound Fields
- Listen to Dr Terri Janke, WMAU President Elliott Bledsoe and guests discuss our guide to working with First Nations content responsibly - All That We Touch podcast