Wikipedia:Know my name

Know My Name edit-a-thon, National Gallery of Australia, 8 March 2020

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Know my Name project page

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. 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 last Know My Name Wikipedia edit-a-thon hosted by the National Gallery of Australia was held on Saturday 16 March 2024, 1.00-4.30pm, in the Gallery's Research Library. 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

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

Introductory	Style guides, policies, biographies, visual arts	Layout, headings, sections, lists
Wikimedia Australia training resources More Than A Day - a short series of YouTube video tutorials A simplified guide for contributing to Wikipedia Tips for writing your first article Writing better articles Introduction to visual editor What Wikipedia is not Know My Name editing guidelines Wikimedia cheat sheets by Caddie Brain	Manual of style (MOS) MOS, Biography, Lead section MOS, Visual arts, Lead section MOS, Visual arts, References are essential MOS, Visual arts Wikipedia policy:Biographies of living persons Notability policy (shortcut WP:N) Notability: Creative professionals	MOS, Layout MOS, Article titles, headings, and sections MOS, Section headings MOS, Layout, Order of article elements MOS, Visual arts, Lists of works/Lists of museums, galleries or collections/Exhibitions
Australian english	Images of artists and their works	Know My Name
MOS, National varieties of English MOS, Spelling ABC style guide Macquarie Dictionary The new Australian Government Style Manual	Guidelines for images and other media files Image use policy External links MOS, Layout, External links MOS, Visual arts, Using images of art Commons:Simple media reuse guide Wikimedia Commons Copyright in Australia	About KMN on NGA site KMN Facebook group

Online information about artists

Libraries, directories	Open access online journals	Public galleries and libraries
Women's Art Register Australian Women's Register Australian Dictionary of Biography National Library of Australia 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. Trove KMN The artists Google Advanced Type name of artist into the search box called "This exact word or phrase". Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO) Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) Internet Archive/ Open Library/ Art books Prints and Printmaking Australian Feminist Art Timeline Art Research; The Scheding Index of Australian Art & Artists	Artlink Art Guide Australia Eyeline Art Collector Beautiful Bizarre Artist profile Fine Print Colossal Art Almanac MeMO JSTOR and Artstor Vault Ocula	National Gallery of Australia National Library of Australia Pictures Collection Art Gallery of South Australia(AGSA) Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) State Library NSW Digital collections National Gallery of Victoria(NGV) State Library of Victoria image collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art(QAGOMA) Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery(TMAG) Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) National Museum of Australia (NMA) Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) National Portrait Gallery (NPG)

Other related collaborative projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red – Wikipedians who create and edit articles about women, a good place to get help and inspiration
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women artists

Get help

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

• International Women's Day 2020 edit-a-thons
• International Women's Day 2021 edit-a-thon
• Know My Name: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Saturday 4 June 2022 1300-16.30, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
• Edit-a-thon 2023, Saturday 11 March, 1.00-4.30pm in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library.
• A Know My Name exhibition was held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) in Victoria. MPRG held an edit-a-thon on Saturday 10 February 2024, 2.00-4.30pm.
• Know My Name Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Saturday 16 March 2024, 1.00-4.30pm, National Gallery of Australia Research Library.