Wikimedia Australia turns 18 today. We incorporated on 6 August 2008. 18 years. 18 committee terms. 100 members. All of it was built by volunteers! Happy birthday, WMAU. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...

Wikimedia Australia turns 18

Happy Birthday WMAU!

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Wikimania, the world's largest Wikimedia conference, is about celebrating both the movement, and the people that make it happen. The Wikimedian of The Year awards highlight these exceptional individuals 🙌 Read about the 2026 Wikimedian of the Year winners 👇 diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/22/m...

Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026!

This year, once again, we celebrate the people behind the projects!

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Sneak peek! 📲 Here’s a first look inside the Truth Lab: Digital Lab on Indigenous Knowledge, featuring a presentation by Dumisani Ndubane! We're exploring how traditional wisdom and digital innovation intersect to preserve, protect, and amplify Indigenous voices and heritage.

Reminder that this role closes on Sunday 2 August, so there are just a few days left to get an application in!

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This isn't the kind of job listing you see very often! 👀 Our friends at Auckland Museum are looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to join the team! Get more information and apply via Seek: nz.seek.com/job/93393322

A thought-provoking CultureStrong session with Dr Terri Janke & Shevaun Wright at #Wikimania2026 in Paris, incl. audience members sharing their own community projects. More conversations to come this week! Download the Guide & white paper: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Respect... 📸 AlphaLemur, CC BY 4.0

Pssst @wmau.bsky.social, @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social a bit of cross-Tasman competition on gender stats on Wikipedia? (Lovely new gender stats tool)

New release: the Wikimedia Australia ICIP & Indigenous Data Sovereignty Guide + the CultureStrong Platforms white paper. Indigenous-led work with Terri Janke and Company on respecting First Nations knowledge. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Respect... #FirstNations #ICIP #IndigenousDataSovereignty #Wikimedia

Respecting First Nations knowledge on Wikimedia platforms

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Did you know … you don’t need to be in Paris to join Wikimania 2026? You can register to attend Wikimania virtually, joining fellow Wikimedians on talks, workshops, community gatherings, and more ➡️ wikimania.org

Open data means building and maintaining digital infrastructure and working with trusted partners like Wikimedia — a key recommendation from our new article: doi.org/10.1371/jour... @wikimediafoundation.org dation.org @wmau.bsky.social #CitizenScience #FAIRdata #OpenData

"Data has spirit, and records are family." WMAU Board member Kassi Hays shares her reflections from the 2026 AIATSIS Summit. The conference participants had a chance to hear about making Wiki platforms culturally safe for First Nations contributors. wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Reflect...

Reflections from the AIATSIS Summit 2026

Reclaiming power, Indigenous data sovereignty on Wiki platforms, and the case for truth-telling.

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❓Did you know that the VE Commodore was the first Holden designed entirely in Australia, & that Holden spent more than a billion dollars developing it before the brand was retired for good in 2020? more on #Wikipedia 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_... #veholden #vecommodore #Australiancars

Holden Commodore (VE) - Wikipedia

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📣 Wikimedia Australia's June news and happenings from the Announce Newsletter. New projects to share, events & news from the Wiki World. 📖 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed... 📩 Subscribe to the newsletter and have the latest delivered straight to your inbox: lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/li...

Wikimedia Australia June 2026 Update

Our latest newsletter

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🏳️‍🌈 Wiki Loves Pride is back! Join Wikimedia Australia for six fortnightly working sessions, June–Aug, improving LGBTQ+ content on Wikipedia, Commons & Wikidata. New editors very welcome — we'll show you how. Drop in for any session 👇 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WikiLov...

WikiLoves Pride Australia 2026

From June to August, we're holding six fortnightly editing sessions to create, improve and translate LGBTQ+ content across Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

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Ramm collections get almost 13 million #Wikipedia hits due to new #copyright strategy #GLAMS

Ramm collections get almost 13 million Wikipedia hits due to new copyright strategy - Museums Association

Report explores impact of museum's decision to allow open access to out-of-copyright material

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❓ Did you know that the well-known portrait of bushranger Ned Kelly, taken the day before he was hanged, was the work of Charles Nettleton - the same photographer who recorded Australia's first steam train journey? 📸 Read more on Wikipedia: w.wiki/RxVw

Charles Nettleton - Wikipedia

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Drop in and Wikidata - June 2026 📆 Thursday 25 June 2026, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEST 👉 w.wiki/RdGC Join our monthly Wikidata drop-in - whether you're a seasoned Wikidata editor or starting out, we'd love you to join the conversation.

📚 #1Lib1Ref Australasia wrapped up another huge year! Across 3 weeks, librarians & new editors added 4,170 references and made 11,700 edits to Wikipedia. Articles edited and words added both more than doubled on 2025. Thanks to everyone who helped improve the internet, one reference at a time 🙌

Behind many of the best Wikipedia articles are organized groups of people focused on improving them. WikiProjects are volunteer-led collaborations centered on specific topics, from medicine to history to technology. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

🏳️‍🌈 Wiki Loves Pride is back! Join Wikimedia Australia for six fortnightly working sessions, June–Aug, improving LGBTQ+ content on Wikipedia, Commons & Wikidata. New editors very welcome — we'll show you how. Drop in for any session 👇 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WikiLov...

WikiLoves Pride Australia 2026

From June to August, we're holding six fortnightly editing sessions to create, improve and translate LGBTQ+ content across Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

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For three days in May, Wikimedians came together to share ideas, learn from one another and strengthen the relationships that underpin our movement. Here's what we learnt at the ESEAP Conference 2026! #ESEAPCon2026 wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...

Wikimedia Australia at ESEAP 2026

What we've been up to in May!

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Our May 2026 update is out: reflections from ESEAP 2026 in Kaohsiung, a postcard from WikiCon Wellington, and the final days of #1Lib1Ref with Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ. Read more: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...

Wikimedia Australia May 2026 Update

Our latest newsletter

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Wikipedia content is created and edited worldwide by volunteer contributors. Curious to learn more? 👉 events.humanitix.com/introducing-... #wikipedia

Introducing: Wikipedia - A free online workshop

Learn how you can contribute to (and improve) the world's largest free encyclopedia!

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If you're new to Wikipedia editing, or need some guidance around adding citations, then this online drop-in session with our friends at Wikimedia Australia is the perfect chance! Cite Right: Drop-in Wikipedia editing workshop Friday 29 May, 1pm–2pm NZT Drop in, chat, learn and edit together!

Ever wanted an easy way to save newspaper articles in Trove as high-resolution images? I've created a userscript that makes it easy to download cropped and masked articles, as well as full page images. https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-images-userscript

Missed our #1Lib1Ref Intro to Wiki Referencing workshop? Catch the recording on YouTube 🎥 Hosted with Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ on 21 May as part of #1Lib1Ref — the global campaign asking librarians to add one citation to Wikipedia. 🔗 youtu.be/b4W7Ukm3aTs

1Lib1Ref Australasia - Intro to Wiki Referencing

YouTube video by Wikimedia Australia

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❓Did you know... that in 1986, a Brisbane theatre company staged a musical combining The Sound of Music with Frankenstein? The plot resolves when Maria turns into a werewolf... very Queensland! 🍍 Read how the plot twists and turns on Wikipedia! w.wiki/MMkT 📷 image by Reubot, CC BY-SA 4.0

Happening now at #ESEAP2026 - WMAU's Alice Woods on improving the representation of the Northern Territory through Wikidata 📍 2,000+ items & thousands improved — Aboriginal place names, outstations, protected areas, even shipwrecks & hydrographic rocks. Place names tell us about place. #ESEAPlive

Day two at #ESEAP2026 in Kaohsiung 🇹🇼 A day full of collaboration — a Q&A with the Wikimedia Foundation Board, launch of a ESEAP Youth Group, internet policy, sessions on data, digital safety, and the UCoC - it's been a packed one! #ESEAP2026 #Wikimedia #WikimediaAustralia #Kaohsiung #OpenKnowledge

Day one at #ESEAP2026 in Kaohsiung 🇹🇼 Australian Wikimedians are here, swapping ideas with friends from across East, SE Asia and the Pacific — women in Wikimedia, community storytelling, AI translation, copyright, and plenty more! The connections and learning from each other are the best part. #ESEAP

❓Did you know that Australia's only active volcanoes sit on a sub-Antarctic island roughly 4,000 kilometres south-west of the mainland - closer to Antarctica than to Perth? 🌋 Check it out on Wikipedia w.wiki/MGqw 📷 photo of "Big Ben" on Heard Island by laikolosse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons