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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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  • Critical Evaluation of Who Edits Wikipedia Entries, and Why

    Critical Evaluation of Who Edits Wikipedia Entries, and Why

    By Heather Ford This article appeared in Agora vol. 59 no. 1 (2024). Agora is the triannual journal of the History Teachers Association of Victoria. The evolution of a Wikipedia page about the Egyptian protests in 2011 provides a fascinating example of the need for critical thinking about knowledge produced in the digital age. In an

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