Wikimedia Australia

01/06/2026

Ever wondered how Wikipedia actually gets written? It's volunteers - millions of them - all around the world 🌏

Join Wikimedia Australia for a free one-hour online workshop where we'll show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it matters. You'll learn how to edit a page, add references, add an image, and set up your User Page.

No experience needed — just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

📆 Register:

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

29/05/2026

There's still a few days to contribute to the Australian dashboard! A reminder that contributions don't have to be coordinate edits specifically: any edit to a Wikidata item with a coordinate location in Australia qualifies!

👉 Coordinate Me 2026: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Coordinate_Me_2026

29/05/2026

Did you miss our Intro to Wiki Referencing workshop? Good news — you can now catch the recording on our YouTube channel and Wikimedia Commons.

is the global campaign asking librarians to add just one citation to Wikipedia. Small effort, big impact on the world's largest encyclopaedia.

📅 Hosted by Wikimedia Australia and Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand on 21 May 2026
🎥 https://youtu.be/b4W7Ukm3aTs

Join Wikimedians, Pru Mitchell and Tamsin Braisher as they guide participants on the best ways to enhance Wikipedia’s references. Pru is a librarian and educ...

17/05/2026

Happening now at — WMAU's Alice Woods on improving the representation of the Northern Territory, one Wikidata item at a time 📍

Alice has been steadily working through a Mix and Match list of over 15,000 entries from the NT Place Names database — adding 2,000+ items and improving thousands more. Aboriginal place names, outstations, protected areas, and yes, even shipwrecks and hydrographic rocks!

17/05/2026

Day two at the ESEAP Conference in Kaohsiung 🇹🇼, and the regional collaboration story just keeps building.

Day 2 opened with a conversation between the community and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees — a chance to put the questions that matter most to ESEAP directly to the people steering the movement. From there, the day branched into sessions on data and technology collaborations across the region, the UCoC ecosystem five years on, internet policy (with our own Amanda Lawrence from Wikimedia Australia presenting), threat modelling and digital safety, and a brilliant launch of the new ESEAP Youth Group.

There were also lightning talks, a poster showcase, and the announcement of a new MoU between the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group and St Aloysius University of India — another tangible piece of cross-regional collaboration coming out of this conference.

What's striking is how much of yesterdays program was about partnership: between affiliates, between generations, between regions. The ESEAP community is genuinely figuring out how to support each other better, and it's a privilege to be in the room for it.

Onwards to day three! 🇹🇼

Wikimedia ESEAP Hub

16/05/2026

Greetings from Kaohsiung! 🇹🇼

Australian Wikimedians have landed at the 2026 ESEAP Conference, and what a brilliant first day it's been! There's something genuinely special about being in a room with Wikimedians from across East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific — swapping notes on the projects we work on in Australia, finding the shared challenges, and discovering just how much we can learn from one another.

Today's program spanned everything from copyright to teaching Wiki projects in universities, to AI translation tools, to mapping the Wiki women's movement. The Wiki Women Summit stream kicked off with a great icebreaker, and the panel on community strategies and the genuine advocacy for women in Wikimedia was a real highlight!

Conferences are about the conversations between sessions just as much as the sessions themselves, and these are the moments where the best ideas and collaborations often start. More to come over the next few days.

If you're following along online, say hello! 👋https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/eseap/eseapcon/

14/05/2026

is back!
From today through 5 June, we are running our annual trans-tasman joint campaign. It is simple: imagine a world where every librarian added just one reference to Wikipedia. https://w.wiki/NAFE

📷 Winnieswikiworld, CC BY-SA 4.0

13/05/2026

Did you know you can attend the upcoming ESEAPCon sessions online?

This event brings together Wikimedians from across the ESEAP region (East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific) to share, learn, and collaborate, with sessions running from 15 to 17 May, 11am–7pm AEST time.

Register below to get access:
https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/eseap/eseapcon/



📷 image by KamoMomo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

12/05/2026

❓TIL that Australia's only active volcanoes sit on a sub-Antarctic island roughly 4,000 kilometres south-west of the mainland... That means it is closer to Antarctica than to Perth!

🌋Introducing "Big Ben" on Wikipedia https://w.wiki/MGqw. What is going to be your Wikipedia rabbit hole today?

📷 photo of "Big Ben" on Heard Island by laikolosse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

05/05/2026

❓Did you know... that the Chinese Australian Herald, Australia's first nationally circulated Chinese-language newspaper, was read as far away as London, the Pacific Islands, and the Philippines?

Nearly 1,500 issues rolled off the press before its close in 1923. They have now been digitised by the National Library of Australia and are available on Trove.

👉 Read more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Australian_Herald

🖼️ This image is of the first issue of the Chinese Australian Herald, which was published on 1 September 1894 and is now in the Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons