“But there’s a lot of fear and reticence about doing that, because people fear that they’re going to do it in the wrong way.”

Ford says that, while there are things that can improve Wikipedia’s coverage, there are also structural issues at play.

“There’s already a lot that Wikimedia Australia is doing, because they do recognise that it is a problem,” says Ford.

“Generally, the traditional approach is that we just need to add more things. We need to get more people involved in adding more things. So there are a lot of edit-a-thons that go on that are supported and sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Australia.”

The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, doesn’t produce articles for the site. But it does encourage the creation and improvement of articles on under-represented topics.