It started as a joke. An encyclopedia anyone could edit? Now it’s one of the ten most visited websites in the world.

Even when you think you're not using it, you probably are. It's feeding your search results, your voice assistant, your AI chatbot.

But if Wikipedia shapes how we understand the world, what shapes Wikipedia?

Host Heather Ford, researcher Francesca Sidoti, and author Richard Cooke investigate the site and all that it touches.

Episode 1 asks, what does Australia look like on Wikipedia? The answer takes you from a fictional soap-opera suburb to a dispute over what a place should be called.

Episode 2 goes inside the three big fights that made Wikipedia what it is today.

Episode 3 asks what its future holds, in the age of generative AI?

Episode 4 is a True/False quiz with nuanced answers to simple questions.

Episode 5 is for teachers and students wanting practical tips on how to research and teach with Wikipedia.

Episode 6 is for Wikipedia editors wanting to share First Nations knowledge respectfully.

All That We Touch: Wikipedia is produced by Impact Studios at the University of Technology Sydney.

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Voices

Professor Heather Ford is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Communication and Social Sciences at UTS. She is the author of “Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age” published by MIT Press.

Dr Francesca Sidoti is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the ARC Discovery project ‘Wikipedia and the nation’s story: towards equity in knowledge production’ in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Richard Cooke is an author, reporter and screenwriter. The author of three books, he is the former US correspondent and current contributing editor to The Monthly magazine. His latest book is The Last Best Place On The Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia.

Research

Top ten websites in the world by traffic in May 2026: Semrush

Credits

The executive producer of this series is Heather Ford.

It is hosted by Heather Ford, Francesca Sidoti and Richard Cooke.

Produced by Jane Curtis. Associate producer is Francesa Sidoti.

Story consultant is Rachael Cusick. Sound by John Jacobs.

Bell music composition by Maksim Voloshin-Cleary.

Executive Producer of UTS Impact Studios is Sarah Gilbert.

It’s produced on Gadigal Country in Sydney Australia.

wikihistories is supported by Australian Research Council Grant DP220100662, ‘Wikipedia and the Nation’s Story: Towards Equity in Knowledge Production’.

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