<nettime> How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia

[Geert Lovink via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

From: <Heather.Ford@uts.edu.au>

Dear all, 

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our second Annual Report, 'How Australian Places are Represented on Wikipedia’: https://wikihistories.github.io/reports/2024. 

You might also be interested in our article published in The Conversation yesterday to launch the report: https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-of-them-sanitise-history-241364. 

 This report is the culmination of several months research, including analysing more than 35,000 articles about Australian places in the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia and speaking with a number of article editors. It is the first study of its kind in Australia.

We've found that the representation of Australian places on Wikipedia is neocolonial and anthropocentric. Crucially, however, the report shows this isn't the result of any single aspect of Wikipedia as a platform or editor practices. We show how various aspects of the platform, editor practices and wider feelings about Australia come together to create this representation of Australian place. 
 
As always, we're so interested in your feedback on this report or the wikihistories project. Please feel free to get in touch with any suggestions, thoughts and critiques! 

Very best, 

Heather, Francesca, Michael and Tamson
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