ALIA West 2026

Perth2026 September 17 (Thursday), 6:00PM· ALIA · conferences · SLWA · The 2026 ALIA West conference was held on a Thursday and Friday in September 2026. I'm not a librarian, and was attending as a Wikimedian partly to help with the idea of Wikifying a Conference. The venue was the State Library of WA, and it's good that the café there opens before the library itself does, because we got an extra hour of talking time. (It's a clique but so often true that conferences are about talking to people more than listening to presentations!) It was good to meet the WA Military Digital Library folk. There were two of them, representing a team of about ten. WAMDL uses MediaWiki and it was great to hear more about what they think of it (they like it of course). It turns out they're running from a self-hosted server at the home of one of the organisers! There's a possibility that we'll get organised and start a chat channel for Australian history wiki people, because there are about five such…