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Wikipedia and the nation’s story

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Photo of the 2021 Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, taken by Matt Hrkac.

Invasion Day Melbourne 2021‘, Matt Hrkac from Geelong/Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia – 2024 report

This year, the wikihistories team set out to understand how well Wikipedia represents Australian places and what kinds of editing practices drive those representations.

Examining 35,000 articles about Australian places and interviewing volunteer editors, we found that English Wikipedia reflects an anthropocentric and neo-colonial image of Australia as a place. Read the report here

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