A total history and Wikipedia nerd (working for Wikimedia Australia) with a library and archives background. Also... must love dogs!
Ballina, New South Wales
Joined July 2012
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My 'on Wiki' intention (resolution) for 2025 is to seriously tackle this... tiny... working list of about 300 names that need to be added to Wikipeda and/or Wikidata from the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography.
Please take a name!
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@wm_au
The revised edition of the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography sits here:
territorystories.nt.gov.au/1…
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Thank you to the hard work of 100s of 1000s of volunteers
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Celebrating a milestone: Women's Biographies on Wikipedia Reach 20% - a global effort has been underway to increase the representation of women on Wikipedia. Thank you to our partners and tireless volunteers for being part of this journey.
wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Celebr…
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🌍 Ready to get involved in the Wikipedia community? Want to help a friend get started? Take a look at this online course for beginners that explains how to begin with the free encyclopedia. Check it out 👉 w.wiki/BVax
Recent ridiculous purchase for the win…? 🏆
Lower quality then I expected BUT look at my little loves 💚
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Are you looking forward to attending Wikimania 2025? Scholarships are now open to help make it possible. Find out more here: diff.wikimedia.org/2024/11/0…
#Wikimania2025
#WikimaniaNairobi
#Wikimania@20
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Have you registered for WikiCon yet? This annual conference will bring together participants from across Australia to strengthen collaboration, learn new skills, and explore ways to enhance all things Wiki.
We can't wait to see you there! meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Even…
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🗓️ Applications close soon!
If you are interested in digital heritage and the Wikimedia movement, we want to hear from you. #wikimedia #APNICFoundation #digitalheritage
PLEASE READ: We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history theconversation.com/we-analy… via @ConversationEDU
Come along!
Wikimedia Australia is celebrating @Wikidata's 12th Birthday next Friday, 1 November. More details via the link @wm_au @wikiprojectnz wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Online…
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Happy 23rd birthday Wayback Machine!
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
#InternetHistory
ALT Internet Archive website in 2001
Going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Science says you’re one of these three types theconversation.com/going-do… via @ConversationEDU
Bean got his jaws around a chickens buttocks today! Said chicken really wants me to let her out and Bean would really like me to let her!
I have rarely seen him so excited but, no Bean, no!
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Thought, care & consultation needed when adopting Aboriginal
names for birds. theconversation.com/giving-f…
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I don’t give a hoot where the prime minister lives. I do give many hoots that last week his govt legislated to establish two international nuclear waste dumps in WA & SA & that hardly anybody knows about it ☢️
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There are two very exciting roles open at Wikimedia Australia to work on digitising the Ian Peter Archive. Give them a look if you are into Australian internet history.
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#WikimediaAU #WikiJobs @WikimediaAU @Wikimedia @Wikipedia