Wikimedia Australia February 2026 Update

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6 March 2026, Ali Smith.

Wikipedia 25 Birthday mascot by CDekock-WMF,CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This month’s news and happenings includes celebrating volunteer achievements, inspirational projects and new events.

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News

Open platforms, open minds, respectful practices: ICIP & IDSov Guide for Wikimedia Australia

Wikimedia Australia warmly invites you to attend an in-person information session with Dr Terri Janke, in Canberra, exploring how Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) intersect with open knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

Event details and RSVP

Get ready for WikiCon Australia 2026

The WikiCon Australia program is now live. Join us for a weekend filled with learning opportunities, networking, engaging discussions, and yes, some fun!

Registration is available to attend in person and also via Zoom.

📍 Location: National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

📅 Dates: Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 April 2026

📝 Registration: Register on meta-wiki

Wikipedia 25th anniversary docuseries

The documentary series celebrating Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary featured nine Wikipedians from around the world, each of whose unique activities was compiled into a video of just under one minute. The videos were then introduced on the Wikimedia Foundation’s social media platforms from January 15th. Read more on Diff

Online tools powered by Wikis

Discover and explore games and websites powered by Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other wikis.

Queer Memory - Queer History of the World

Explore LGBTQIA+ histories across every continent, powered by open data from Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons. Explore the tool.

Wikipedia the Text Adventure

A playable text adventure version of Wikipedia. Start anywhere that has a Wikipedia article, and explore the world a step at a time. Go on a new Adventure.

Gender Bias Detector

Search for a woman's Wikipedia biography — or an entire category — to generate an instant bias audit. Explore gender bias.

Events

• Introduction to Wikipedia - March 2026 — Wednesday 4 March 2026 Learn how Wikipedia content is created
• Drop in and Wiki - March 2026 — Thursday 5 March 2026 Join us online for a casual drop-in session to edit Wikipedia
• Introduction to Wikipedia: increasing awareness of South Australias unique environment — Thursday 5 March 2026 increasing awareness of South Australia’s unique coastal environments, protected areas and nature conservation issues, and heritage and history.
• 2026 International Women's Day Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon — Saturday 7 March 2026 In 2026, celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) by helping Yarra Libraries and the Women's Art Register close the gender gap in Wikipedia articles and editors in our Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.
• Online Community Meeting - March 2026 — Monday 9 March 2026 The Australian Wikimedia community meets online monthly
• Perth Meetup 93 — Sunday 15 March 2026 Regular social WikiClubWest catch-up.
• Introduction to Wikipedia editing at TTG Library — Thursday 26 March 2026 Jump in and learn the basics of editing Wikipedia in person
• Drop in and Wikidata - March 2026 — Thursday 26 March 2026 Join our monthly Wikidata drop in!

Other things from around the web

• What we are learning from hub pilots - Diff
• Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3 - Diff
• Why Wikimedia belongs in education - Wikimedia UK
• Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - ARS Technica
• Inside the effort to digitise and translate centuries-old Newa manuscripts - Kathmandu Post
• The Spark of Linked Data and Libraries: OCLC Passage Project White Paper Translation Report - Diff
• The architecture of conflict VS the architecture of collaboration - Wikimedia Europe
• WikiCendekia 2026: Insights from our training of admins in Indonesia - Diff