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Welcome to the Indigenous peoples of Australia WikiProject. This is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Australia's indigenous peoples.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

Scope

The scope of this project is all matters specifically relating to any or all the indigenous peoples of Australia, including:

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|articles relating to any subjects raised about Indigenous Australian's here or here

|articles listed, or to be listed in the 'Indigenous Australian's navigation guide here.

|articles relating to each, any, or all of the indigenous Australian groups listed here

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Guidelines

For best practices in creating and editing articles, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Open tasks

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This is a new project, and several things need to be done. Many of these things will remain important as the project develops. Among them are:

  • Recruiting members and keeping them active and interested
  • Improving any articles falling within the scope of this project
  • Creating any articles which are important, but have not currently been created
  • Actively watching, monitoring, and maintaining the quality and integrity of existing articles about indigenous Australians, including making any changes as necessary

Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  • {{User|Aliceinthealice}} has a particular focus on the Northern Territory
  • {{User|Ben Dawid}} Aboriginal history, culture and current affairs.
  • {{User|Boylo}}
  • {{User|Bruceanthro}} My area of interest is in the Aboriginal groups, beliefs, anthropology, and cultural landscapes of North Queensland specifically; and Australia more generally.
  • {{User|Clare.}} Especially Canberra-area Aboriginal history, but also broadly Aboriginal culture, celebrities, art and social issues
  • {{User|Cygnis insignis}}
  • {{User|Elliottbledsoe}}
  • {{User|Euryalus}}
  • {{User|Gnangarra}}
  • {{User|Hack}} - Aboriginal sportspeople, mostly football (soccer)...
  • {{User|Hamiltonstone}} Indigenous art
  • {{User|Jembana}} NSW indigenous languages especially Darug and Kamilaroi, also Walpiri and Jarwoyn
  • {{User|John D. Croft}} West Australian Aboriginal history and culture
  • {{User|Laterthanyouthink}}
  • {{User|LizLou}}
  • {{User|MatthewDalhousie}} is especially interested in contact history, mission stories and indigenous justice movements up to and including 1967
  • {{User|Paul foord}}
  • {{User|RayNorris}} - especially Aboriginal Astronomy, but also culture, art, social issues
  • {{User|schomynv}} works in the German speaking Wikipedia and often translates articles.
  • Takver (talk - contribs ) - Takver: from a local historical perspective I'm working on the pages associated with the Kulin peoples in Victoria, most notably the Wurundjeri.
  • {{User|Wikiain}} Australian constitutional law
  • {{User|WikiTownsvillian}} mostly interested in the Bwgcolman People and the history of Palm.
  • {{User|WLRoss}}
  • {{User|Macropneuma}}
  • {{User|Zaddikskysong}} Kunwinjku people and Arnhem Land
  • {{User|BlackfullaLinguist}}
  • {{User|Alabama81bornandbred}} my interest is Aboriginal culture pre-colonisation
  • {{User|Runciblehon}}
  • {{User|Locochoko}} Indigenous literature and current prominent figures in the community
  • {{User|Boneso}} Anything that grabs my interest, particularly Gippsland massacres which are difficult due to the lack of easily accessible reference material. Also interested in improving current pages.
  • {{User|Espermela}} Indigenous perspectives in academia, anthropology, making local histories available, accurate and complete (Victoria, Kulin nation, Woi wurrung language group)
  • {{User|99of9}} I will be co-facilitating a [https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/first-nations-wikipedia-edit-a-thon First Nations Editathon] in July 2021.
  • {{User|Anna Goodwin12345}}
  • {{User|Poketama}} Currently working on including accurate Aboriginal placenames on articles, especially within Victoria.
  • {{User|Thomas_Norren}} Yidiny and surrounding people
  • {{User|Yainsley}} post colonial (particularly post federation) indigenous history and the gungarri people of south QLD.

Parentage

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Articles

= Featured content =

This section is an incomplete list of Featured articles, Featured pictures, and Featured lists within the scope of this project.

== Featured articles ==

== Candidates ==

= Collaboration and review =

; Collaboration of the Month.

  • Current Collaboration of the month: TO BE NOMINATED

; Peer review

= New articles =

Please feel free to list any new articles falling within the scope of this project here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

= New categories =

Please feel free to list any new categories falling within the scope of this project here (newer categories at the top, please).

= Articles in need of attention =

(Usually with either WP:N, WP:V, WP:RS or other issues that require some action)

= Article requests =

Version 1.0 assessments

Categories

The main category is :category:Indigenous peoples of Australia, the :category:Indigenous Australian people is for articles on individual Indigenous Australians.

When an article is found - and does not have the Indigenous project in the discussion page tag - the tag should appear like:-

WP Australia | Indigenous=yes to have it included within the project

{{See also|Category:Australia}}

Articles

Indigenous peoples of Australia

WikiProject

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia

Resources

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  • [http://www.atns.net.au Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements Project], an Australian Research Council linkage project
  • [http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/subject_guides__bibliographies Information sheets and bibliographies at AIATSIS]
  • [http://www.nntt.gov.au/Applications-And-Determinations/Search-Determinations/Pages/Search.aspx National Native Title Tribunal list of native title determinations & links to associated Federal Court decisions]

Tools

:Main tool page: [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Tools toolserver.org]

  • [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Reflinks Reflinks] - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Checklinks Checklinks] - Edit and repair external links
  • [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Dab_solver Dab solver] - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer Peer reviewer] - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.