Welcome to Wikimedia Australia
Supporting Free Cultural Works in Australia
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Who We Are
Wikimedia Australia, Inc.® is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, whose primary aim is to promote equality of opportunity to access and participate in the collaborative creation of Free Cultural Works, especially educational works, and works about Australia, its culture, natural environment, and Australian news and media. See our Statement of Purpose & Rules.
Wikimedia Australia is recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation as an official chapter and as such will offer members an official voice in the global Wikimedia community, whose aim is to create the sum of all human knowledge, freely available in your own language.
The purpose of Wikimedia Australia is to:
- organise and participate in educational and social events that promote development of Free Cultural Works and related open source software systems, in particular wikis
- increase public awareness, support and participation in the projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
- develop resources to assist Australians in the creation and maintenance of Free Cultural Works
ABN: 74 761 792 996
CAV Registration No.: A0051923E
What we do
The 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: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikibooks and 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.
Contact Information
The best way to contact us is via email to contact wikimedia.org.au. You will also find additional contact options on the Contact page, which is linked in the navigation box on the left side of each page.
Latest News
| Feb 1:
| The committee's strategy and planning meeting concluded with some clear goals and objectives for the year ahead.
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| Nov 7:
| The Queensland Museum, with assistance from the chapter, has begun uploading images from the Bert Roberts photograph collection onto Wikimedia Commons. See the images here.
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| Aug 7:
| GLAM-WIKI has been and gone! A fantastic conference by all accounts.
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| July 31:
| Meetups also happening in Canberra (Wednesday 5th) and Melbourne (Sunday 9th).
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| July 30:
| Meetup planned in Sydney for August 4th, ahead of the GLAM conference - come and say hello!
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| June 20:
| Wikisource has promoted its first Australian Content to 'featured' status - see below for full details
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| May 16:
| A 'Bold' redesign of this website frontpage is launched! - comments are most welcome on the mailing list, or on the 'discussion' page
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Featured Australian Content
Wikimedia Commons is a huge repository of freely licensed media - which has just celebrated its 6 millionth file upload.
This image of Bruny Island, which is off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, is a 'featured picture' which means the Commons community has categorised it as one of the finest images available in its collection.
It was photographed and uploaded by an Australian volunteer, Noodle snacks, who has also donated 136 other high quality images of largely Australian content. All material on Commons is freely licensed and reusable.
Planned Events
- Wikipedia turned 9 years old in January 2010 - happy birthday Wikipedia!
- Various meetups planned to coincide with our AGM in November. See AGM page for details.
- Wiki Wednesdays in Sydney - a regular bi-monthly meet for those interested in all things wiki.
- GLAM-WIKI - a two day series of seminars and workshops for the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector held over 6-7 August 2009 in Canberra.
Wikimedia Australia would love you to get involved! All members are encouraged to get involved in many ways.
You may be an active participant on one of the Wikimedia projects, or maybe you'd like to know more about how to get involved in one - whatever your background and experience, we'd love to tell you more about Wikimedia, and 'free culture' - please do sign up!
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Wikimedia Foundation Projects
The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization, operates several multilingual and free-content projects, including Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, which has become one of the world's most popular web destinations.
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