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WikiProject Victoria

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Welcome to WikiProject Victoria!
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Flag of Victoria
Flag of Victoria

Coat of arms of Victoria
Coat of arms of Victoria
Welcome to WikiProject Victoria! This WikiProject aims primarily to create, fill out, build, edit, construct, and modify articles about Victoria (state).

If you would like to join this project, we would love your help, so please add your name to the list below, and look at the to-do list for some suggestions on articles that you may be able to help with. You may also inquire on the talk page, or visit the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard for collaboration on Australian articles in general.

State emblems
Floral Bird Animal Marine Tartan Mineral Fossil
Common (pink) heath
Epacris impresa
Helmeted honeyeater
Lichenostomus melanops cassidix
Leadbeater's possum
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri
Common seadragon
Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
Victorian state tartan Gold Koolasuchus Cleelandi
12 Apostles

Categories
Things you can do
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Here are some tasks you can do to help at WikiProject Victoria:

Tools
Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links
  • Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles
 
Current events
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10 November 2026 – AI boom
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces plans to introduce mandatory safeguards for artificial intelligence companies, including security incident reporting and independent model evaluations, and establish a new regulatory body to oversee compliance. (AFP) (ABC News)
6 November 2026 – 2026 Indonesia wildfires, Australia–Indonesia relations
Australia deploys a C-130 Hercules aircraft, a Cessna Citation aircraft, and 20 personnel to help extinguish wildfires in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (AFP)
3 November 2026 – 2026 Iran war fuel crisis
The Reserve Bank of Australia raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.85%, its highest level since 2008, citing persistent inflation and rising energy costs associated with the Iran war. (AFP via France 24)
3 November 2026 – 2026 Melbourne Cup
In thoroughbred racing, Point Of Law, trained by Ciaron Maher, wins the 2026 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse in Victoria, Australia. Zahrann and Juja Kibo, also trained by Maher, finish second and third respectively. (AFP)
30 October 2026 – Leongatha mushroom murders
The Court of Appeal of Victoria, Australia, rejects Erin Patterson's appeal against her murder convictions and removes her 33-year parole eligibility, effectively imposing life imprisonment without parole for killing three relatives with death cap mushrooms in 2023. (AFP)
25 October 2026 –
Western Sydney Airport in New South Wales, Australia, commences passenger operations as Greater Sydney's second airport. (The Guardian)


Article alerts
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Did you know

Articles for deletion

  • 25 Oct 2026 – List of places of worship in Moorabool Shire (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

  • 13 Nov 2026 – Hit Radio 87.6 (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Cielquiparle (t · c): Unreferenced since creation in 2010, except for external link to its own website. No reliable sources found in ProQuest or Google News where we would expect to find coverage. Does not meet WP:GNG.
  • 09 Nov 2026 – Melbourne Bowl (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Publicwalrus (t · c): A proposed bowl game that never came to fruition. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NSPORTSEVENT, just pure speculation.

Good article nominees

Requested moves

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Assessments

Of the 16,044 pages overseen by WikiProject Victoria:

100% have been assessed for quality
See Category:Unassessed Victoria articles for the 2 remaining articles



100% have known importance
See Category:Unknown-importance Victoria articles for the 2 remaining articles



55.5% of prose articles are not stubs
See Category:Stub-Class Victoria articles for the 5569 remaining articles

For full assessment categories see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria/Assessments


Recognised content

19 FA-Class Victoria articles
2 FL-Class Victoria articles
0 FM-Class Victoria articles
45 GA-Class Victoria articles.
177 Did you know Victoria articles as of 8 May 2023

For full list of recognised content see: Assessments#Recognised content

Assessment statistics
Main page: WikiProject Victoria/Assessments

WikiProject Victoria uses the {{WP Australia}} template banner for Wikipedia article assessments.

The banner has a Victoria= parameter that provides article assessment ratings for Victoria-related articles:

Example usage: {{WP Australia|Victoria=yes}}

Articles relating to WikiProject Victoria should have their talk pages tagged as per the above example.

See also

Members
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Active members

To join WikiProject Victoria, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. Dssis1 (talk · contribs)
  2. InformZion (talk · contribs) 05:32:52, 27 June 2023 (UTC) 
  3. Longhair (talk · contribs)
  4. Mattinbgn (talk · contribs)
  5. MichaelBillington (talk · contribs)
  6. Moanarque (talk · contribs)
  7. mr. boniface (talk · contribs)
  8. Orderinchaos (talk · contribs)
  9. Wai Hong (talk · contribs)
  10. Bduke (talk · contribs)
  11. Tinkstar1985 (talk · contribs)
  12. Daniel99091 (talk · contribs)
  13. Slabba (talk · contribs)
  14. Chicken7 (talk · contribs)
  15. Admella1859 (talk · contribs)
  16. Sarah (talk · contribs)
  17. Vauxhallx (talk · contribs)
  18. Sheepunderscore (talk · contribs)
  19. Bogong Jack (talk · contribs)
  20. Doonagatha (talk · contribs)
  21. Scottius11 (talk · contribs)
  22. Epistemos (talk · contribs)
  23. Maias (talk · contribs)
  24. Shelbypark (talk · contribs)
  25. Punk Boi 8 (talk · contribs)
  26. Garyvines (talk · contribs)
  27. Cp_dale (talk · contribs)
  28. Романов (talk · contribs)
  29. Raleigh98 (talk · contribs)
  30. Jenks24 (talk · contribs)
  31. Mgorey (talk · contribs)
  32. Mattcooperrider (talk · contribs)
  33. ContrillionAU (talk) 10:52, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
  34. Mjs1991 (talk · contribs)
  35. Jessc (talk · contribs)
  36. Peterdownunder (talk · contribs)
  37. Australiantiger (talk · contribs)
  38. ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) – Railways, trams, paddle boats, geography
  39. EllsworthSchmittendorf (talk · contribs)
  40. Nick F., Toaster (talk · contribs)
  41. Boneso (talk · contribs) – Health
  42. JediOne (talk · contribs) – Humanitarian & Environment
  43. skinnytony1 (talk · contribs) – Environment, climate change, history, politics, Ballarat
  44. BetterByBike (talk · contribs) – Health & Transport
  45. Donama (talk · contribs)
  46. MetroManMelbourne (talk · contribs) – transportation, inner east
  47. Poplach12 (talk · contribs) 00:49:47, 10 June 2020 (UTC)  – Melbourne, flags, maps, history, AFL
  48. CupcakePerson13 (talk · contribs) 15:45:12, 4 July 2020 (UTC)  Dandenong ranges and Melbourne
  49. CPS-9444 (talk · contribs) 08:08:28, 13 December 2020 (UTC) 
  50. APNOneTwo (talk · contribs) – Public Transportation, Politics, Urban Planning, Sports, Venues and Western Suburbs
  51. Ultraodan (talk · contribs) – AFL, Politics
  52. MicedVolvo (talk · contribs) 12:31:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC) 
  53. GraziePrego (talk · contribs)
  54. Loytra (talk · contribs) – Politics
  55. Adam Black GB (talk · contribs)
  56. GMH Melbourne (talk · contribs) 16:54:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC) 
  57. 4rkange1 (talk · contribs) 22:52:44, 8 June 2024 (UTC)  – Trains, urban/transport planning, history, Melbourne, Mornington Penisula, Formula One
  58. Zakary2012 (talk · contribs)
  59. TarnishedPath (talk · contribs) 05:15:03, 4 November 2024 (UTC) 
  60. ThatPB95 Fan (talk · contribs) 09:54:07, 7 February 2025 (UTC) 
  61. The Kora Person (talk · contribs) 07:59:33, 15 October 2025 (UTC)  Vic politics, trains, and places!
  1. AuspolScribe (talk · contribs)

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Victoria should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Victoria participants.

Wikitext userbox where used
[[Category:WikiProject Victoria participants]] none linked pages
{{User WikiProject Victoria}}
linked pages
{{User WP VIC}}
linked pages
{{User WP VIC|flag}}
linked pages
{{User WP Victoria}} linked pages
{{User WP Victoria|invite}} linked pages

For other Victoria userboxes see Category:Victoria (state) userboxes.

Also if you live in or are currently visiting Victoria, please add [[Category:Wikipedians in Victoria {state)|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]] to your user page.

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