The report is the second in a 3-part Australian Research Council Discovery project on Wikipedia and Australia, called wikihistories. Last year, the team published a report on how Australian people are represented, and next year they will be focussing on Australian events.
In this study, the team mapped and analysed 35,077 English Wikipedia articles about Australian places. Then they examined 3 articles in detail (Katoomba, Tasmania, and Australia), interviewing 14 editors who had worked on the articles, and looking closely at what they did and didn’t cover.
While anyone can edit Wikipedia, meaning editors can come from anywhere, all 14 of the interviewees were Australian.