Category: data viz
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Australian place articles: Cebuano Wikipedia
Each hexagon represents an equally-sized zone of the earth’s surface, and is coloured to represent the number of human edits on articles written about places in that zone on Cebuano Wikipedia. Since Cebuano Wikipedia focuses on geographic features rather than human habitation, its place articles are more evenly distributed across the continent than English Wikipedia.…
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Australian place articles: English Wikipedia
Each hexagon represents an equally-sized zone of the earth’s surface, and is coloured to represent how many articles are written about places in that zone on English Wikipedia. The further you move from the cities, the fewer articles there are. Across Australia’s arid centre, there are very few articles indeed. Read more in the report.
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Australian biographies: English Wikipedia
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…
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Articles with First Nations place names: English Wikipedia
There are 2,261 places in the dataset have been dual-named with a First Nations name – about 6% of the total. This is a small quantity, given that the entire Australian landmass had been occupied and named by First Nations people for tens of thousands of years prior to European colonisation. Read more in the…
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Edit intensity of Australian place articles: English Wikipedia
The edit intensity in Australian places that lie on or near the Australian mainland reveals that English Wikipedia’s editors focus their attention overwhelmingly on metropolitan centres and surrounding regions. Each hexagon represents an equally-sized zone of the earth’s surface, and is coloured to represent the number of human edits on articles written about places in…
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Decade of birth of Australian biographies: English Wikipedia
There is a colonial bias in the database. This is partly a product of our focus on biography. There is very little biographical data available about individual persons living in Australia prior to 1788. Additionally, the distribution of biographies obscures the sharp decline in Australia’s population in the first two decades of colonial settlement, followed…
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Biography representation vs overall population: English Wikipedia
There is an historical bias in the spread of English Wikipedia’s Australian biographies. There are many more articles per person in the early years of the colony compared to later on in Australia’s colonial history. Since the 1850s, the historical coverage of Australian Wikipedia biographies has been more equal. Read more in the report.
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First Nations biographies: English Wikipedia
Wikipedia biographies of First Nations Australians remain underrepresented compared to Census figures, but the gap is slowly closing. While First Nations Australians made up 3.2% of the population in 2021, their Wikipedia presence hovered around 2.16%—up from 2.05% in 2021. Recent data suggests Wikipedians are beginning to address this disparity. Read more in the report.
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Australian biographies by gender: English Wikipedia
Viewing the data on a logarithmic scale emphasises the parallel track of male and female biographies in Australian Wikipedia. It also allows us to visualise the similar growth of trans, non-binary or intersex biographies. Read more in the report.
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“Marking” gender in Australian biographies: English Wikipedia
Wikipedia biographies of Australians tend to explicitly mark gender when subjects are female, trans, non-binary, or intersex—especially in sport, where terms like “women’s” are common. Biographies across all genders focus heavily on sport and entertainment, though trans and non-binary entries more often highlight activism and social issues. Read more in the report.