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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.