And, while there were many missing articles on Australian places – particularly in rural areas – there were extensive articles on fictional Australian places. Erinsborough, the fictional location of Neighbours, has an article that runs to 5,000 words.

Ford says that biases like these are a well-known issue for Wikipedia. Her PhD supervisor, Professor Mark Graham, found in 2009 that there were more articles about Antarctic places than there were about all but 1 of the 53 African nations. Fictional places like Middle-Earth and Discworld also received more attention.

But the team also found some deep tensions around First Nations names and histories on Australian Wikipedia.