Author: Francesca Sidoti
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The storm over First Nations placenames on Wikipedia
Francesca Sidoti and Heather Ford This article appeared in Agora vol. 60, no. 3 (2025). Agora is the triannual journal of the History Teachers Association of Victoria. Wikipedia’s representation of Australian places tends to delegitimise Australia’s First Nations history though a very particular application of its rules by its editors. On 7 June 2023, the Queensland government restored K’Gari as
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Article in The Conversation
Read our article in The Conversation in the lead-up to the launch of our 2024 report ‘How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia’. Contained within: the maps of Australian places on Wikipedia; the importance of Erinsborough and Summer Bay; and what Wikipedia editors fight about when it comes to the intricacies of representing Australian places.
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newsletter #6
Dear friends of the wikihistories project, We’ve been silent for a while but that’s because three major outputs from the wikihistories project have been released in the past few months with the jewel in our crown, our report that explores how Australians are represented in Wikipedia, launching today. Other outputs include the “Gender and the
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newsletter #5
Editorial: The elusiveness of gaps This week in the wikihistories newsletter, we look at Michael Mandiberg’s analysis of Wikipedia’s race and ethnicity gap. Here, what Mandiberg initiates as an attempt to determine the percentages of underrepresentation of Indigenous and historically nondominant ethnic groups in the content and creation of Wikipedia becomes an exploration of the methodological and