The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Meetings/Brisbane 26 May 2012

This event will be a Workshop to flesh out Chapter Two of the book.

Date: May 26 & 27
City: Brisbane
Venue: The Edge, State Library of Queensland

Program edit

Arrive Sat Morning
Sat Afternoon Wikipedia Session: 1pm-5pm - The Edge
Sat Night social function: ~6pm: West End (See w:Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/5 for details)
Sun Morning Wikipedia Session: 10am-12:30am - SLQ Level 4: Meeting Room A
Sun afternoon HOPAU project meeting: 2pm-5pm - The Edge

Workshop details edit

Saturday afternoon

The Saturday afternoon session will use a chapter of the written history that UQ sports historian Murray Phillips is writing about the "The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia" (HOPAU) as the basis for creating and expanding Wikipedia articles about the Paralympic movement in Australia.

Murray’s outline of the chapter identifies the key topics that need to be expanded on Wikipedia in order to complement the development of the written history.

In this session Murray will share what he has in mind, and participants will be collaborating with him to flesh it out. Wikipedians and the Paralympic community will identify which topics the wiki folk should focus on for the next few months in order to be able to work together with his research assistants.

The afternoon session will incorporate whiteboards and discussion about the topics, investigating any potential notability/verifiability issues related to these topics, and allocating topics to people who would like to work on them.

At the conclusion of the session, we'll have a list of topics on the wiki so that the online community can join the discussion and collaboration.

Sunday morning

The Sunday morning session will be more focused on content, with participants working individually or in small groups. Participants will be in the stacks, finding resources, scanning, and writing articles.

In both sessions APC staff, Murray Phillips and related UQ staff/students will be working together with Wikipedians to learn how to edit Wikipedia.

Topics edit

International Competitions

International Stoke Mandeville Games/Paralympics

Paralympic Games (Rome 1960)*
Paralympic Games (Tokyo 1964)*
Paralympic Games (Tel Aviv 1968)*
Paralympic Games (Heidelberg 1972)*

Commonwealth Paraplegic Games (joint WP page)

Perth 1962
Kingston, Jamaica 1966
Edinburgh 1970
Dunedin 1974

National Competitions (Australian Paraplegic Games/National Wheelchair Games/National Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Games)

Melbourne 1960
Sydney 1962
South Australia (1964)
Brisbane (1966)
Perth (1968)
Melbourne (1970)
Sydney (1972)

International Stoke Mandeville Games/Paralympics

Prominent Identities (athletes and support staff)

1960

Daphne Ceeney (NSW)*
Ross Sutton (NSW)*
Robin Tourrier (QLD)
Gary Hooper (NSW)*
Kevin Coombs*
Frank Ponta**
Bill Mather-Brown*
Bruno Moretti*
Chris O’Brien
Kevin Cunningham
Roger Cockerill
John Turich

Support –

Kevin Betts*
Dr David Cheshire
John ‘Johno’ Johnston
Fred Ring(?)

1964

Bruce Thwaites (Captain) (NSW)
Gary Hooper (NSW)*
Trevor French (NSW)
John Martin (NSW)*
Allan McLucas (NSW)*
Daphne Ceeney (NSW)*
Elizabeth Edmondson (WA)**
Marion O’Brien (WA)*
Lionel Cousens (WA)
Bill Mather-Brown (WA)*
Frank Ponta (SA)**
Roy Fowler (QLD)*
Vic Renalson (QLD)**
Michael Dow (VIC)*
Elaine Schreiber (VIC)*
Rerserves – M. Tamminen (QLD), J. Gidney (NSW)
Leader: George Bedbrook**
Manager: ‘Johno’ Johnston
Attendants: Kevin Betts* and William (Bill) Gibb
Nurse, Miss M Buzacott
Baggage master: Cyril C. Thomas
Volunteers: K. Pinchers (fencing coach) and Tim Timmermans (swim coach)

1968

P Smith
D Workman
Sally Lamb
Cherrie Ireland (nee Loydstrom)
Elaine Schreiber*
Marion O’Brien*
Daphne Hilton*
Elizabeth Edmonson*
Lorraine Dodd*
Kevin Coombs *
Bill Mather-Brown*
Bruno Moretti*
Frank Ponta** (Basketball Captain?)
Gary Hooper*
Kevin Betts
Vic Renalson** (Team Captain?)
K Munro
Roy Fowler*
K Bawden
B Chambers
Kevin Cunningham
Robert McIntyre**
John Beattie
Peter Burt
Allan McLucas*
A South
Alan Conn*
F Blums
N Simmonds
D Watts
J Newton
John Martin*
Team Manager – ‘Johnno’ Johnston
Senior Medical Officer (and International Stoke Mandeville Games Committee member) – George Bedrock**
Attendants – Kevin Betts*, M Wilson, William (Bill) Gibb, J McCafferty, Miss J Tyler, Miss N Noyce
Nursing Aids – Mrs A Coops, Mrs Gary Cooper, Mrs Kevin Cunningham

1972

Eric Bolter*
Alan Conn*
Kevin Coombs (Basketball team captain)*
Pauline English*
Pam Foley
Roy Fowler*
Tracey Freeman*
Terry Giddy**
Cherrie Ireland (nee Loydstrom)
Libby Kosmala**
Eric Magennis
John Martin*
Rob McIntyre**
Bob McMillan
Brian McNicoll**
Frank Ponta**
Vic Renalson**
Cliff Rickard
Eric Russell**
Victor Salvemini
Elaine Schreiber*
Tony South*
Team Nurse – Nadine Mather-Brown
Team Physio – Don Perriman

� Other Identities

Jeff Wiseman (admin NSW)
Dr John Grant (Medico, Sydney)
Dr John Yeo (Medico, Sydney)
Herb Sanderson (remedial gymnast Vic)
Geoff Luke (remedial gymnast Vic)
Fred Gibbs (remedial gymnast Qld)
Vernon Hill (physio Qld)

Attendees edit

John Vandenberg (talk)
Graham87 (talk)
Hawkeye7 (talk)
Tony1 (talk)
KteachK (talk)
Murray Phillips (University of Queensland)
w:user:Melissa Carlton
w:user:Irenah
Pat Ollerenshaw
w:user:Aussiesportlibrarian
Tony Naar (Australian Paralympic Committee)
Rebekka Wake (Australian Paralympic Committee)
Tim Mannion (Australian Paralympic Committee)
Cathy Lambert - South Australia (Australian Paralympic Committee)
w:user:Theepsteins (Sunday only)
w:User:Stownsend5 (Sunday Only)
w:User:Lankiveil - (Saturday afternoon only)