A wiki Caregiving and dementia workshop was held yesterday at the
University of Canberra. The event, with 11 participants of which 10 were
female, was organised by Dementia Training Study Centres around Australia
with JTNeill taking the lead.
Dementia Training Study Centres in Australia have decided to use WMF
platforms to organise and share information regarding dementia on WMF
projects similar to work being done by other GLAMs. The hope is this will
turn into a good pilot programme inside Australia to encourage greater
academic participation on Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Wikinews,
Wikisource and other projects. It is also hoped that the project will
enable the long term preservation of work being done by the various groups
involved. Too much of it now gets created on CD or in print and then
disappears.
Details of the project can be found at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Caregiving_and_dementia
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