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News
Welcome to our newest staff member!
Wikimedia Australia has hired two new staff who will be starting soon. Ali has started this week as Communications and Projects Coordinator, and Alice will start in September as Education and Projects Coordinator. Both will be working part time. We hope you’ll welcome them warmly.
Craig Franklin Award
The Craig Franklin Award honours Craig Franklin, a generous and prolific Australian Wikipedian, who died in 2018. The award recognises the positive impact on the Wikimedia movement in Australia and we are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Craig Franklin Award is Franklin Women! Read the full announcement here.
Wikimedia Australia Partner Projects update
Earlier this year we funded four projects to improve Wikimedia content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. This supported QUT digitising their photo archive, Australian Women in Religion’s Wikimedian in Residence, Shire of Paroo adding to Wikipedia, and ACMI’s Wikimedian in Residence. We’ll be sharing more about these projects later this year as they’re now wrapping up.
Find more news, stories, and announcements on our website.
Events
Introducing: Wikipedia - Online Workshop and Drop In Session - Thursday 7 September 1:30pm AEST
Held on the first Thursday of each month, this online workshop introduces the basics of editing Wikipedia and will be followed by a one hour drop in session where you can ask questions, share your work, or just hang out and edit Wikipedia together. Our Wikipedia workshop starts Thursday 7 September at 1:30 PM AEST, with the Drop In Session beginning at 2:30 PM. Further details here.
ALIA event: Digitisation and Preservation - Wednesday 13 September 1pm AEST
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Digitisation and Preservation group will be holding a live webinar on Wednesday 13th of September at 1 pm AEST. Hear speakers from Trove, Wikimedia, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library on internal and external engagement for digitised collections. Further details here.
Next Community Meeting - Wednesday 13 September 7pm AEST
Our monthly community meetings are open to everyone. We are looking forward to hearing from the community. Please join us online Wednesday 13 September at 7pm AEST. Details here.
More events will be announced soon. Keep up to date on our website.
#Wikimedia
Other things from around the web:
New Zealander takes out top wikipedia award, Radio New Zealand
Wikidata and ChatGPT, Finn Årup Nielsen
Over 60 Kadazandusun dialects uploaded on Wikipedia, says Wikimedia community user group Malaysia, Malay Mail
WMAU on Social Media
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