The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia

Our first objective is to create at least stub articles on Wikipedia for all Australian Paralympic medalists, their coaches, and pages for Australia at each of the Paralympic Games. At the same time we are scanning images and documents, and creating audio and video for uploading to Wikimedia Commons. In this work we hope to build and sustain a volunteer editing community on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, by engaging existing editors and training new ones. We want to work with this editor community to continuously improve the Wikipedia coverage of Australia at the Paralympics.

Low-resolution copy of the final proposal from UCNISS to the Australian Paralympic Committee for the production of a text The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia. Design by Sunshine Connelly for UCNISS.

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The APC has contracted sport historian Murray Phillips at the University of Queensland to participate in this effort, and to compile a Wikibook drawing from the Wikipedia and Commons work, to be called The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia. This Wikibook will be produced into a printed and bound format as well as the online format.

If you would like to join in on this effort, please find us at the meetings and workshops being organised around Australia, or through the various page links below.

Links

• HoPAU portal on Wikimedia Outreach
• HOPAu blog and email list
• Wikipedia Book: Australia at the Paralympics
• Wikipedia Book: Australian Paralympians
• Meetings and Workshops
• Media coverage – Logging media coverage of HOPAu
• Tender for the original description and plan for this project.

Wikipedia

• Recent changes to pages in the category 'Australia at the Paralympics'
• Recent changes to pages in the category 'Australian Paralympic medalist stubs'
• Recent changes to pages in the category 'Paralympic gold medalists for Australia'
• Recent changes to pages in the category 'Paralympic silver medalists for Australia'
• Recent changes to pages in the category 'Paralympic bronse medalists for Australia'
• Wikipedia portal: Paralympics articles
• Recent Changes to the Infobox for Australia in the Paralympics

Wikimedia Commons

• Wikimedia Commons: Images from the Australian Paralympic Committee

Research

• All pages – An initial survey of pages on Wikimedia Foundation projects relating to Australia and the Paralympics
• APC topic list – A list of topics that are possible from some APC records at hand
• Quality statistics – this revision shows the stats when the this Wikiversity page was created. this revision shows the stats when the press releases went out.

Subpages

• All pages
• Chapter 2 topics
• Library
• List of contributors
• List of priority topics
• Media coverage
• Meetings
• Meetings/26 June 2011
• Meetings/Brisbane 26 May 2012
• Meetings/Brisbane 31 October 2011
• Meetings/Perth 18 Sept 2011
• Request for Proposals
• Tender

Recent changes

• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/List of priority topics
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Request for Proposals
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/List of contributors
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Meetings/Brisbane 26 May 2012
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Chapter 2 topics
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Meetings/Perth 18 Sept 2011
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Meetings/Brisbane 31 October 2011
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Meetings/26 June 2011
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Meetings
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Media coverage
• The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Library