The team compared the coverage of articles on English Wikipedia to articles on Cebuano Wikipedia. Cebuano, the second-most common language in the Philippines, has one of the largest Wikipedias – mostly because of a program called ljsbot. This bot is designed to automatically make short articles from public databases, such as NASA climate data. This means it heavily features geographical articles, like lakes or mountains.
The team found that, compared to the bot Cebuano articles, English articles were more focussed on Australian cities that had been established by British colonists in the last two centuries.
About 6% of the places had First Nations dual names, which the researchers say is roughly comparable to the ABC’s coverage and state-based Geographical Names Boards.