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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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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
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newsletter #3
On the 8th and 9th of June, we celebrated a major milestone in the wikihistories project: our first annual conference. Approximately 100 attendees joined the conference online over the two days, as we discussed themes of memory, history and forgetting in the world’s largest repository of historical knowledge. The book of abstracts is available at