Today the NT Government announced that it's ok to start fracking the Beetaloo Basin, claiming that all 135 recommendations from the 2018 Pepper Inquiry report have been met and, therefore, fracking can proceed. Most of the recommendations - and you can go through them all here: Action items | Hydraulic Fracturing in the Northern Territory - are outside my field of expertise as a linguist. There's a lot of regulatory stuff, things about the mining industry, stuff about land and water management that others know much more about than me. However, as a linguist working in the Katherine Region for 20 years, there is one recommendation that sits in my wheelhouse so, after today's announcement, I wanted to take a look at it. It's Recommendation 11.6, which says: That in collaboration with the Government, Land Councils and AAPA, an independent, third-party designs and implements an information program to ensure that reliable, accessible, trusted and accurate information...
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As a matter of fact I just created a Wagiman Language page, but I have a few reservations about putting too much information on it, public domain now as it is with the online dictionary, I still feel some cultural privacy should be respected.
There's a large portion of Wikipedia devoted to Indigenous Australian languages; it even has it's own acronym "ia". They have (supposedly exhaustive) lists of languages, ethnic groups, clans, etc. I don't know who creates all these pages, but they appear to know their stuff.
Give it a go, Wamut. It's easy when you get the hang of it, and you can always view the code of other pages and copy-paste sections to use as templates. That's what I did to get the little ethnologue information box and the phonemic inventory tables. But it can take up a lot of time, trust me.
Although I have had a go editing bits of other pages, which is pretty fun. (I updated the list of teams in the Katherine District Football League! hehehe)