The purpose of this wiki is to document the history of streets across Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its primary purpose is to document:

• Street name origin
• Significant historical events in the street
• Significant people who were born, lived or died in the street

There are several namespaces that act as page categories. These are:

• street: used for specific street pages
• suburb: helper pages that list streets automatically by suburb
• meta: pages related to the operation of the wiki (e.g. help pages)