Wikimedia Australia

🏳️‍🌈 Wiki Loves Pride is back — and this year we're making editing a regular thing!

Join us for six fortnightly working sessions from June to August. They're relaxed, hands-on get-togethers where we improve how LGBTQ+ people, history and culture are covered on , and .

Never edited before? Perfect — we'll get you started and stick with you. Seasoned editor? Come and knock over a few articles with good company.

📅 The first session is Saturday, 20 June 2026. See our website for more details:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WikiLoves_Pride_Australia_2026



Image: TitiNicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

🏳️‍🌈 Wiki Loves Pride is back — and this year we're making editing a regular thing!

Join us for six fortnightly working sessions from June to August. They're relaxed, hands-on get-togethers where we improve how LGBTQ+ people, history and culture are covered on , and .

Never edited before? Perfect — we'll get you started and stick with you. Seasoned editor? Come and knock over a few articles with good company.

🔧 The first session is Saturday 20 June 2026. See our website for more details:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WikiLoves_Pride_Australia_2026

WikiLoves Pride Australia 2026 From June to August, we're holding six fortnightly editing sessions to create, improve and translate LGBTQ+ content across Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

That's it for Australasia 2026! 🎉
For a second year, Wikimedia Australia and (WANZ) joined forces for the Southern Hemisphere window of the global "One Librarian, One Reference" campaign — inviting library and information professionals across both countries to add citations to Wikipedia.

Over three weeks of online workshops, drop-in editing sessions and in-person events in Melbourne, Canberra, Dunedin, Ōtautahi Christchurch and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, the numbers spoke for themselves:
📈 4,540 articles edited
✍️ 11,700 edits
🔗 4,170 references added
📚 1.32 million words added
Articles edited, total edits and words added were all more than doubled compared to 2025!

In an age where more and more people turn to AI to find information, the need for verified, trustworthy knowledge has never been greater — and Wikipedia relies on volunteer editors to keep it reliable.

Huge thanks to Australian Library and Information Association and LIANZA for helping spread the word, and to every librarian and new editor who gave their time. You helped improve the internet, one reference at a time. 💙


Check out the campaign: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Celebrating_1Lib1Ref_Australasia_2026

📸 WMAU at the National Library of Australia by AlphaLemur CC BY-SA 4.0

"The future of Wikimedia is fundamentally human."
For three days in May, eight Australians joined around 150 Wikimedians in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for the ESEAP Conference — the regional conference for communities across East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Our crew was busy across the program: Belinda Spry introduced the new Wikimedia ESEAP Hub and Community Connectors and helped facilitate the Women and Gender stream alongside Amanda Lawrence; Alice Woods shared her work improving Northern Territory representation through Wikidata; Ali Smith came along as a social media ambassador; and Ni Komang Ista Triana took part in the Youth Track and the launch of the ESEAP Youth Group.

From AI and gender equity to youth engagement, the throughline was the same — the movement's greatest strength is its people.

Read our full reflection:
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia_at_ESEAP_2026

Wikimedia Australia at ESEAP 2026 What we've been up to in May!

This month, we're sharing reflections from ESEAP 2026 in Kaohsiung, where eight Australians joined Wikimedians from across the region; a warm postcard from Ash at WikiCon Wellington (zines, the Treaty of Waitangi, and a frank chat about Wikipedia's declining admin numbers); and the final stretch of , our joint campaign with Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
There's also a packed line-up of June events plus a few good reads from around the web.
Have a read, and subscribe to stay up to date:

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Ever wondered how Wikipedia actually gets written? It's volunteers - millions of them - all around the world 🌏

Join Wikimedia Australia for a free one-hour online workshop where we'll show you how to edit Wikipedia, and why it matters. You'll learn how to edit a page, add references, add an image, and set up your User Page.

No experience needed — just sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time so you can follow along.

📆 Register:

Introducing: Wikipedia - A free online workshop Learn how you can contribute to (and improve) the world's largest free encyclopedia!

There's still a few days to contribute to the Australian dashboard! A reminder that contributions don't have to be coordinate edits specifically: any edit to a Wikidata item with a coordinate location in Australia qualifies!

👉 Coordinate Me 2026: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Coordinate_Me_2026

Did you miss our Intro to Wiki Referencing workshop? Good news — you can now catch the recording on our YouTube channel and Wikimedia Commons.

is the global campaign asking librarians to add just one citation to Wikipedia. Small effort, big impact on the world's largest encyclopaedia.

📅 Hosted by Wikimedia Australia and Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand on 21 May 2026
🎥 https://youtu.be/b4W7Ukm3aTs

1Lib1Ref Australasia - Intro to Wiki Referencing Join Wikimedians, Pru Mitchell and Tamsin Braisher as they guide participants on the best ways to enhance Wikipedia’s references. Pru is a librarian and educ...

Happening now at — WMAU's Alice Woods on improving the representation of the Northern Territory, one Wikidata item at a time 📍

Alice has been steadily working through a Mix and Match list of over 15,000 entries from the NT Place Names database — adding 2,000+ items and improving thousands more. Aboriginal place names, outstations, protected areas, and yes, even shipwrecks and hydrographic rocks!

Day two at the ESEAP Conference in Kaohsiung 🇹🇼, and the regional collaboration story just keeps building.

Day 2 opened with a conversation between the community and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees — a chance to put the questions that matter most to ESEAP directly to the people steering the movement. From there, the day branched into sessions on data and technology collaborations across the region, the UCoC ecosystem five years on, internet policy (with our own Amanda Lawrence from Wikimedia Australia presenting), threat modelling and digital safety, and a brilliant launch of the new ESEAP Youth Group.

There were also lightning talks, a poster showcase, and the announcement of a new MoU between the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group and St Aloysius University of India — another tangible piece of cross-regional collaboration coming out of this conference.

What's striking is how much of yesterdays program was about partnership: between affiliates, between generations, between regions. The ESEAP community is genuinely figuring out how to support each other better, and it's a privilege to be in the room for it.

Onwards to day three! 🇹🇼

Wikimedia ESEAP Hub