wikiclub nt (2016-2018)

Wikiclub NT was a multi-year effort to create and update Wikipedia pages related to Northern Territory history, places and people.

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The Northern Territory is poorly represented on Wikipedia. When the project began, there were a mere 1700 pages relating to the Northern Territory compared to more than 10,000 pages on Western Australia. Aspects of Territory history of great significance and interest at a local, national and international level were not covered in Wikipedia, and were therefore invisible to a vast audience, including to Territorians themselves.

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Internationally, Wikipedia ‘edit-a- thons’ and ‘meet-ups’ are frequently hosted within the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector as an engagement and collection activation exercise. This project brought that movement to the Northern Territory.

 

It enabled the launch of a series of workshops providing training in Wikipedia editing, followed by a monthly program of edit-a-thons for new editors to come together to create and update pages about the Northern Territory. It also supported the delivery of the first- ever Wikipedia training workshops in Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant Creek. Participants were trained and are now active editors of Wikipedia, working together to double the number of Wikipedia pages for the NT

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More: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikiclub_NT

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Northern Territory Government, Northern Territory Library, Wikimedia Australia

In collaboration with Gideon Digby, Robert Myers and Jared Archibald AM.

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Selected media: Get your Wiki on, The Monthly, 1 July 2016