User:Kerrieburn

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Name	Kerrie Burn
Country	Australia
Current time	Current time for UTC+10 is 12:59
Education and employment
Occupation	Academic librarian
Education	Bachelor of Science, Graduate Diploma in Library and information science, Master of Arts
University	University of Melbourne, University of Divinity
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This user lives in the Australian state of Victoria. This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 4 months and 7 days. This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know. This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red This user participates in WikiProject Australia.

About Me

Formerly the inaugural University Librarian at the University of Divinity in Melbourne, I have 30+ years of experience across academic and theological libraries. I now continue my association with the University as a University Scholar and am keen to spend more time working on projects associated with GLAM Wiki.

Australian Women in Religion WikiProject

In 2019, I initiated the Australian Women in Religion WikiProject and continue to lead this initiative. The project has curated a list of over 710 women (and associated feminist associations and publications) who are in some way associated with a religious or spiritual tradition in Australia. We are working to create Wikipedia articles for those without them, as well as improving others, to help address the gender bias on Wikipedia. The number of biographies about women on Wikipedia is 20.125% as of 2 June 2025.

• Wikipedia: WikiProject Australian Women in Religion
• Australian Women in Religion Dashboard Page
• Australian Women in Religion WikiProject incorporated into the Australian Women in Religion Archive (LibGuide)

Wikimedian-in-Residence

In 2025, from February to June, I will be a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the State Library of Victoria, working on their project: Radical Acts: Including Australian Feminist Activism in the Historical Record. This is a Project Partnership with Wikimedia Australia.

• Kerrie Burn SLV User Page

• SLV Wikimedian in Residence Dashboard Page
• SLV Blog Post: Radical Acts
• Wikimedia Australia Report: From Archives to Wikipedia: Documenting Australian Feminism Through Radical Acts

Conflict of Interest?

I also occasionally create and edit articles related to theological libraries and/or theological education in Australia. Working in a theological library gives me access to resources that can be added to Wikidata and used in the creation and improvement of Wikipedia articles. While my primary goal is to fill knowledge and gender gaps on Wikipedia in my areas of subject expertise, I always endeavour to maintain a neutral point of view and stay within Wikipedia's guidelines for notability and use of reliable sources.

Australian Women in Religion Wikipedia Article Assessment

This list is bot-generated periodically; recent changes may not appear.

Australian Women in Religion articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Mid	Low	NA	Total
GA		1		1
B	1	23		24
C	2	133		135
Start	1	138		139
Stub		18		18
List		2		2
Category			29	29
Project			1	1
Template			1	1
NA			2	2
Assessed	4	315	33	352
Total	4	315	33	352
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,417			Ω = 4.47

Pages I have worked on

Australian Women in Religion - Created

1. Angela Coco C class
2. Anita Monro C class
3. Anna Halafoff C class
4. Anne Elvey C class
5. Aunty Jean Phillips Start
6. Barbara Bell (educationalist) Start
7. Bernice Moore C class
8. Bridget Partridge B class
9. Brigid McGuigan C class
10. Catherine Cecily O'Brien Start
11. Catherine Coffey C class
12. Claire Renkin C class
13. Colleen O'Reilly C class
14. Eileen Healy C class
15. Elizabeth Boase C class
16. Elizabeth Hindson Start
17. Elsie Heiss C class
18. Emma Caroline Silcock Start
19. Erin White C class
20. Glenys Livingstone C class
21. Janet Khan C class
22. Janet Scarfe C class
23. Janina Hiebel C class
24. Jean Gledhill Start
25. Katharine Massam C class
26. Kathleen McPhillips C class
27. Kathleen Williams (theologian) C class
28. Kim Power C class
29. Lilian Alá'í C class
30. Lynne Hume Start
31. Majella Franzmann Start
32. Margaret Dixson Start
33. Marjorie Liddy Start
34. Mary Healy (Mother Gertrude) C class
35. Maryanne Confoy C class
36. Maureen Flood C class
37. Melissa Brickell Start
38. Miriam Fink - Start
39. Penny Magee C class
40. Rosa MacGinley C class
41. Rose Hanigan C class
42. Rosemary Crumlin C class
43. Sophie McGrath C class
44. Tracey Rowland B class
45. Veronica Willaway B class

Australian Women in Religion - Edited

1. Anne Pattel-Gray
2. Charissa Suli
3. Denise A. Austin
4. Edith Amelia Kerr
5. Elaine Lindsay
6. Jane Gorry
7. Janette Gray
8. Grace Emily Munro
9. Marie Tulip
10. Mary Gonzaga Barry
11. Mother Vincent Whitty
12. Phyllis Frost
13. Wendy Solling

Other - Created

1. Anglican Women Concerned Start class
2. Carmelite Library Start class
3. Catholic Theological College C class
4. Christian Women Concerned Start class
5. Magdalene (newsletter) Start class
6. Dangerous Memory Start Class
7. Lesley Moreland Start Class
8. Mannix Library C class
9. Movement for the Ordination of Women (newsletter)
10. Preachers, Prophets and Heretics
11. Towards a Feminist Theology Start class
12. Women and the Australian Church C class
13. Women Authoring Theology Start class
14. Women-Church journal C class

Other - Edited

1. Movement for the Ordination of Women
2. Peter Sherlock
3. University of Divinity

Radical Acts - State Library of Victoria Project - Created

1. Alva Geikie
2. Bon Hull
3. Mary Anne Merson
4. Elizabeth Wilmot (physician)
5. Joan Curlewis
6. Thelma Solomon

Useful Websites

• University of Divinity Australian Women in Religion Project
• 1000 Women in Religion/List of English Wikipedia Articles
• Wikipedia: WikiProject Women in Red/1000 Women in Religion
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Religion – Australia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Religion
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_1000_Women_in_Religion/Suffragists
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index - Redlist Index
• Wikipedia talk:TWA/Portal

Useful Sources

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Australian Women's Register
• Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
• Encyclopedia of Women in Leadership - Religion Theme
• Global Church Project - 160 Women in Theology
• Trove - Women and Religion in Australia
• Wikipedia Australian Religion Biography Stubs
• Australian Catholic Historical Society

My Statistics

https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Kerrieburn

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Divinity/AWR_Project_Partnership_(2023)/home

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Divinity/AWR_Wikimedian-in-Residence_(2023)/home

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/SLV/Wikimedians-in-Residence_(2025)/home (NEW)

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Gilead_Australia/Gilead_editathon_2025_FW_(3_June_2025)

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