[[File:John_Kerr.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Wikipedia has information on a large range of Australian topics, including Australian historic figures]]
[[File:The_Spit_Bruny_Island.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Spit, Bruny Island - one of Wikimedia Commons' [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures highest quality images]]]
The [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia Foundation], Wikimedia Australia's parent organisation, is a not-for-profit organisation which hosts and supports a range of projects that contain information about Australia and Australians. Some of these projects include: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons], [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikisource], [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikibooks] and [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikinews], as well as projects in 266 languages. Wikimedia Australia shares and supports the Wikimedia Foundation's goals but does not manage these projects and is not responsible for their content. Volunteers editing from all over the world contribute the material hosted on the Wikimedia projects and we encourage our members and supporters to have a look and consider joining Wikimedia's mission to support the production of free content.
'''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia Commons]''' is a huge repository of freely licensed media - which has just celebrated its 6 millionth file! This image of [[w:Bruny_Island|Bruny Island]] is a 'featured picture' which means the Commons community has categorised it as one of the finest images available.
The English edition of Wikipedia contains more than three million articles and is one of the top ten most visited websites in the world. It offers encyclopedia articles on a large range of Australian topics, including many major historical figures in Australian politics and culture. Australian volunteers and supporters of Australian content maintain several dedicated workgroups such as [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics|Australian politics]], [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian law|Australian law]] and [[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history|Australian history]] which allow Australian contributors to meet and work together in maintaining various collections of information and multimedia files - there are plenty more and if you wish to participate, the groups are always welcoming of new editors and contributors (especially if you have good source material!)
The freely licensed image, combined with the freely licensed article linked to above is another example of the resources the Wikimedia Foundation are keen to distribute to all, for free. Please browse around this site to find out more about '''Wikimedia Australia'''.
As an example of Australian work on Wikipedia, you can view [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book/render_collection/&colltitle=User:Markhurd/Books/Prime_Ministers_of_Australia&writer=rl here] a collection featuring detailed information on every single Prime Minister of Australia - with thanks to Mark Hurd for collating this into a printable 'book' which you can download and keep for free :-)
Wikipedia Commons is a huge repository of freely licensed media - which has just celebrated its 6 millionth file! This image of Bruny Island is a 'featured picture' which means the Commons community has categorised it as one of the finest images available.
The freely licensed image, combined with the freely licensed article linked to above is another example of the resources the Wikimedia Foundation are keen to distribute to all, for free. Please browse around this site to find out more about Wikimedia Australia.
