“So what Wikipedians do is they tend to avoid dealing with any debates that might be contentious. But then the end result of that is that you only have people on the extremes that are engaging with the issue. I think that’s one of the biggest sources of the omissions that we’re seeing.”

This, too, is something that happens outside Wikipedia.

“My colleagues at the Centre for Public History are trying to engage history teachers to get them to teach Indigenous history, because that’s really important,” says Ford.

“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.”