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To KMN General list of Australian women artists (articles to create or improve)
To Anne Dangar and Ethel Carrick list of artists
To KMN General list of Australian women artists (articles to create or improve)
Wikimedia Australia 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. The Wikipedia Know My Name project aimed to increase the number of articles on Wikipedia about Australian women artists. Volunteer editors were trained by experienced Wikipedians and group editing sessions were 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 provided a list of Australian women artists for editors to research and write about.
The last Know My Name edit-a-thon was held on Saturday 15 Mar 2025 in the Gallery's Research Library in connection with the exhibition, Anne Dangar and Ethel Carrick. The Wikipedia edit-a-thon focused on Dangar, Carrick and their contemporaries: Stella Creed, Florence (Turner) Blake and Olive Kathleen Crane. A selected list of articles to edit was available on the list of Australian women artists page.
Wikipedia editors are still able to use this project page and the lists of women artists to create new articles or expand existing articles.
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. The general list is at the end of the page. Sometimes there was 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.
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.
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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.
In August 2025 Wikimedia Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia held an edit-a-thon for artists featured in Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Editors are also able to work on articles from that list.