The number of Australian biographies on English Wikipedia has consistently grown since the early days of Wikipedia.
Using a dataset of over 83,000 biographies marked as “Australian”, the team explored how Wikipedia defines ‘Australianness’ and whether it reflects the country’s diversity. The findings reveal inconsistencies in how nationality is assigned, and show that Wikipedia tends to default to white cisgender males unless other identities are explicitly noted.
Read more in the report.