Past events
This page lists past events. For upcoming events, see Events.
2014
- Sunday 19th January - Wikipedia Day meetups around the country. Add a location, venue and time to the page to organise a meetup!
- 1st February Perth meetup at the SLWA
- Saturday 8th March [w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/Bus_1,_Toodyay Toodyay bus trip] departing Midland
2013
- Saturday 23 November 2013: Annual General Meeting of the Association to be held at 4pm Melbourne time.
- Saturday 23 November 2013: Backstage pass event from 10am to 12noon at the State Library of NSW, followed by an edit-a-thon on the topic of World War One until 4pm. More information and RSVP
- Saturday 23 November 2013: Wiki Takes Waroona, starting at 10am at the Waroona Visitor Centre & Gallery in Waroona, in partnership with the Waroona Visitors Centre, Shire of Waroona, and WikiProject Western Australia.
- Saturday 23 November 2013: Wikisource 10th anniversary.
- Sat 19 October 2013: Perth meetup 12 from 1:30pm at the Aroma Cafe in the State Library of WA.
- Sun 20 October 2013: Special General Meeting of WMAU. 4pm Melbourne time.
- Wed 23 October 2013: Unlocking the mysteries of Wikipedia so that you can help to contribute content in support of Freopedia..., Fremantle. Watch this space for more details.
- Sat 2 November 2013: editting Wikipedia workshop Toodyay Community Resource Centre, 10am & 13:30
- Wed 18 - Fri 20 September 2013 & Sat 21 September: 3 days of Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations competition in Sydney's St Marys Cathedral Square (Wed-Fri) following by an edit-a-thon at State Library of NSW on Saturday 10am-5pm. Edit-a-thon participants can get 'free' tickets to the games! More information and RSVP
- Sunday 15 September 2013 (Third Sunday of every month): Wikimedia Australia committee meeting - - Time (to be confirmed): 3pm AEST, 2:30pm ACST, 1pm AWST.
- Wednesday 11 September 2013: Freopedia - A walk with User:Gnangarra starting at The Round House to introduce people to the extent of the Freopedia both in the work already done and the work still to be done. Organised by The Meeting Place as lead up to workshops during October - December. All welcome.. registration via the meeting place[1]... start time:10am
- Wednesday 21 August 2013: Freopedia - A walk with User:Gnangarra starting at The Round House to introduce people to the extent of the Freopedia both in the work already done and the work still to be done. Organised by The Meeting Place as lead up to workshops during October - December. All welcome.. registration details TBA... start time:10am
- Saturday 20 July 2013: Blue Mountains Editathon - at State Library of New South Wales - Everyone is welcome for breakfast, a guided tour of the gallery by a library curator, and expert library staff will be available for advice and assistance with source material.
- Monday 15 July 2013: An evening with WittyLama, WMAU member Liam Wyatt talks about Wikipedia at an ALIA seminar at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
- Sunday 7 July 2013 (First Sunday of every month): Wikimedia Australia holds a public meeting, with online participation in the Australian IRC channel #wikimedia-au. Everyone is welcome to join and take part in discussions related to the chapter. - Time: TBA!
- Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June 2013: World War 1 edit-a-thon - an online event - all welcome!
- Tuesday 25 June 2013: Wikipedia edit training at Gold Coast in partnership with State Library of Queensland - Kerry will present the session and is looking for a volunteer to assist new editors with their first article, contact Kerry if you can help
- 28 Jan- 1 Feb 2013 Australia's national Linux conference will be held in Canberra, a great place to meet up with others in the open source community. The conference can offer some financial support (involvement in projects such as Wikipedia is one of the criteria).
- 8 February 2013, Editing workshop in Toowoomba. More information is available on the Toowoomba Regional Council website.
- 9-11 February 2013 ALIA's New Librarians Symposium will be held in Brisbane. WMAU was a sponsor of the event. WMF Exec Director Sue Gardner was a keynote speaker. There was a presentation on WMAU's work with the APC on HOPAU. WMAU had a booth and distributed information and membership forms.
- 12-15 February 2013 ALIA's Information Online conference, also in Brisbane, Sue Gardner was a keynote speaker, introduced by Liam Wyatt of WMAU.
- 21 February 2013, Wikipedia training day in Bendigo. More information is available on Outreach wiki.
- 24 February 2013, Meetup in Canberra. More information is available on Canberra meetup February 2013.
- 13 March 2013, Wiki Masterclass for the SLNSW Innovation Project team.
- 13 March 2013, Open access seminar at the SLNSW.
- 5 April 2013, Wikimedia in Higher Education Symposium: Friday 5 April 2013 at University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, Teachers College Building (A22)
- 6 April 2013, Perth meetup: 1:30PM Saturday, 6 April 2013 at the State Library.
- 7 April 2013, Sydney drop-in: Sunday 7 April 2013 at Customs House Library, Circular Quay - drop in between 11am and 4pm to meet with committee members
- 2 May 2013: Edit training at Wagga Wagga in conjuction with the Wagga Wagga Library and the State Library of New South Wales, lead by User:Bidgee and User:Peterdownunder. Details here
- 24 May 2013: Wikimedia workshop in Canterbury, New South Wales. (project page)
- 26 May 2013: Official launch of Freopedia in Fremantle, Western Australia.
- 29 May 2013: Wikimedia workshop in Broken Hill, New South Wales. (project page)
- 4 June 2013: Wikipedia training day, Gold Coast Libraries
- Tuesday 25 June 2013: Wikipedia edit training at Gold Coast in partnership with State Library of Queensland - Kerry will present the session and is looking for a volunteer to assist new editors with their first article, contact Kerry if you can help
- Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June 2013: World War 1 edit-a-thon - an online event - all welcome!
- Sunday 7 July 2013 (First Sunday of every month): Wikimedia Australia holds a public meeting, with online participation in the Australian IRC channel #wikimedia-au. Everyone is welcome to join and take part in discussions related to the chapter. - Time: 3pm AEST, 2:30pm ACST, 1pm AWST.
- Tuesday 9 July 2013: Wiki Works: an informal session for practising Wikipedia editing skills after the workshop in June, Gold Coast local studies library 10am - 12noon, RSVP by 5 July to the library
- Monday 15 July 2013: An evening with WittyLama, WMAU member Liam Wyatt talks about Wikipedia at an ALIA seminar at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
- Wednesday 21 August 2013: Freopedia - A walk with User:Gnangarra starting at The Round House to introduce people to the extent of the Freopedia both in the work already done and the work still to be done. Organised by The Meeting Place as lead up to workshops during October - December. All welcome.. registration details TBA... start time:10am
- Sunday 1 September 2013 (First Sunday of every month): Wikimedia Australia holds a public meeting, with online participation in the Australian IRC channel #wikimedia-au. Everyone is welcome to join and take part in discussions related to the chapter. - Time (to be confirmed): 3pm AEST, 2:30pm ACST, 1pm AWST.
- Thursday 12 September 2013: Kerry Raymond presented a 1 hour introductory talk on Wikipedia to local history librarians at the Cleveland library in Redland City
- Sat 12 October 2013: Wikipedia Takes Toodyay Show to help celebrate the 160th Toodyay (WA) agricultural show.
2012
- 18 March 2012: WikiTakes Perth Foreshore photographic scavenger event to record a significant historical site before development of Elizabeth Quay commenced
- 6 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library
- 13 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library
- 20 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library
- 27 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library
- 27 November 2012: SLNSW Wikipedia training for all interested SLNSW employees.
- 28 November 2012: SLNSW Wikipedia training for all interested SLNSW employees.
- 1 December 2012: Freopedia edit-a-thon at the Fremantle Local History Library
- 6–7 December: LangCamp 2012, a workshop organised by Wikimedia Australia to support non-English languages in Indonesia and Australia, held at the University of Indonesia
2011
2010
- 6-7 August 2010 GLAM-WIKI: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground, at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra