Noongarpedia

Noongarpedia is a collaborative project to add Noongar language content to Wikimedia projects and to improve all languages' content relating to Noongar topics. It started through support by an Australian Research Council project from the University of Western Australia and Curtin University (in collaboration with Wikimedia Australia).

Noongarpedia activity across the Wikimedia universe
	Noongar language	English language	Multi-lingual
Encyclopedia	Noongar Wikipedia (Incubator)	WikiProject Noongar Noongar Category:Noongar
Dictionary	Noongar Wiktionary (Incubator; English-to-Noongar)	Wiktionary:About Nyunga (Noongar-to-English)
Library	No Incubator site yet	Wikisource:Portal:Western Australia#Noongar (Noongar-English translations)	Included in Old Wikisource (English-Noongar translations)
Files			Category:Noongarpedia
Wikidata			use language "nys" for labels and descriptions
Coordination			Noongarpedia (you're here)

There is also a mailing list: wikimedia-nys archive - options - send (please subscribe if you're interested, and invite others to do the same).

Events

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In reverse-chronological order.

2017-08-07 Noongarpedia training session
2017-08-06 Noongarpedia wikibomb
2016-08-27 Noongarpedia/Wikibomb August 2016
2016-07-30 Noongarpedia/Wikibomb July 2016
2016-03-21 (Harmony Day) Wikibomb at the State Library of WA, 4–7 pm in the ~~Geograph Room~~ moved upstairs to the Great Southern Room on the top floor.
2016-02-20 Wikibomb at the State Library of WA
2016-01-26 Wikibomb at the State Library of WA

Media coverage

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5 July 2017 ABC Radio Perth: Len Collard - Who Are You? Audio available.
11 November 2016 ABC news: NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language
11 November 2016 AM (ABC radio): 'Noongarpedia' bringing a vanishing language to the web. Audio available.
2 September 2016 The Guardian: Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia. Archive.
7 September 2015 RTRFM: Len Collard interviewed on the Artbeat programme. Audio available.
26 May 2015 The Guardian:Aboriginal language Wikipedia faces cultural hurdles, say researchers
18 February 2014 National Indigenous Radio Service: Len Collard interviewed. Audio available.

Participants

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Bibliography

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Cook, Denise (2019) That was my home: voices from the Noongar camps in Fremantle and the Western suburbs
UWA Publishing ISBN 9781760800321