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Know my Name project page[edit]

Wikimedia Australia has partnered with the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) on its Know My Name (KMN) initiative, to increase understanding and appreciation of work by Australian women (cis and trans) artists. Know My Name celebrates Australian and international women artists and the significant contributions they make to Australia’s cultural life.

During 2020-21 Know My Name delivered a program of exhibitions, events, commissions, creative collaborations, publications and partnerships that highlight the diversity and creativity of women artists through history to the present day. Know My Name also signals a long-term commitment to gender equity by the National Gallery in future programming, collection development and organisational structures.

A 2023 analysis of biographies of Australians found that 19.9% were about women.[1] The Wikipedia Know My Name project aims to increase the number of articles on Wikipedia about Australian women artists. Volunteer editors have been trained by experienced Wikipedians and group editing sessions have been held since 2020.

Edit-a-thons: Edit-a-thons are usually in person events where interested people are taught by experienced Wikipedians how to write or add to Wikipedia articles. For Know My Name edit-a-thons, Wikimedia Australia and the National Gallery usually provide a list of Australian women artists for editors to research and write about.

The next Know My Name Wikipedia edit-a-thon hosted by the National Gallery of Australia will be held on Saturday 16 March 2024, 1.00-4.30pm, in the Gallery's Research Library. Register here https://nga.gov.au/events/know-my-name-wikipedia-editathon-2024/

Information about previous Know My Name edit-a-thons can be found at the end of this page.

List of Australian women artists: WikiProject Australia has a list of Australian women artists who either need an article written about them or their article needs expanding. Participants can choose an artist from the list of Australian women artists or work on other artists they have researched. The general list is at the end of the page. Sometimes there will be a tailored shortlist at the top of the page for upcoming edit-a-thons.

There are also other lists where you can find names of Australian women artists. You may need to search these lists for the term "Australia": Women in Red/Artists (Wikidata redlinks), Women in Red/Artists (from crowdsourced information), Women in Red/Animators, Women in Red/Sculptors, Wiki List of Australian women artists, List of Indigenous Australian visual artists.

How to use this page[edit]

This Know My Name project page is a reference for Wikipedia editors who wish to create new articles about Australian women artists or add to existing articles. The Guides table below gives editors links to instructions and advice on how to write articles and includes Wikipedia style manuals and policies. The Online Information table gives links to online reference sources where editors can search for information about artists. The Get help section at the end gives you some contacts to help with editing.

Guides[edit]

Introductory[edit]

Style guides, policies, biographies, visual arts[edit]

Layout, headings, sections, lists[edit]

Wikimedia Australia training resources Manual of style (MOS) MOS, Layout
More Than A Day - a short series of YouTube video tutorials MOS, Biography, Lead section MOS, Article titles, headings, and sections
A simplified guide for contributing to Wikipedia MOS, Visual arts, Lead section MOS, Section headings
Tips for writing your first article MOS, Visual arts, References are essential MOS, Layout, Order of article elements
Writing better articles MOS, Visual arts MOS, Visual arts, Lists of works/Lists of museums, galleries or collections/Exhibitions
Introduction to visual editor Wikipedia policy:Biographies of living persons
What Wikipedia is not Notability policy (shortcut WP:N)
Know My Name editing guidelines Notability: Creative professionals
Wikimedia cheat sheets by Caddie Brain

Australian English[edit]

Images of artists and their works[edit]

Know My Name[edit]

MOS, National varieties of English Guidelines for images and other media files About KMN on NGA site
MOS, Spelling Image use policy KMN Facebook group
ABC style guide External links
Macquarie Dictionary MOS, Layout, External links
Digital Transformation Agency MOS, Visual arts, Using images of art
The new Australian Government Style Manual Commons:Simple media reuse guide
Wikimedia Commons

Online information about artists[edit]

Libraries, directories[edit]

Open access online journals[edit]

Public galleries[edit]

Women's Art Register Artlink National Gallery of Australia
Australian Women's Register Art Guide Australia Art Gallery of South Australia(AGSA)
Australian Dictionary of Biography Eyeline Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW)
National Library of Australia Art Collector National Gallery of Victoria(NGV)
National Library of Australia eResources Scroll down main page to eResources. If you have an NLA membership card, you can login to eResources, and search by artist name to get full text articles. Beautiful Bizarre Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
Trove Artist profile Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG)
KMN The artists Fine Print Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art(QAGOMA)
Google Advanced Type name of artist into the search box called "This exact word or phrase". Colossal Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery(TMAG)
Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO) Art Almanac Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA)
Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) MeMO Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
Internet Archive/ Open Library/ Art books JSTOR and Artstor National Museum of Australia (NMA)
Prints and Printmaking Vault Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS)
Australian Feminist Art Timeline Ocula National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
Art Research; The Scheding Index of Australian Art & Artists[edit]

Other related collaborative projects[edit]

Get help[edit]

We hope you keep editing. If you're having any other issues, feel free to email Wikimedia Australia and the staff will assist you contact@wikimedia.org.au

Or post your question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red where the editors are both helpful and responsive.

Events[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Falk, M., Ford, H., Pietsch, T., & Tall, K. (2023). How Australians are Represented in Wikipedia. University of Technology Sydney. p15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10296217
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