Very interesting and meaningful project.
I live in Greece and I have a 44-year-old
sister who has anoxic brain imjury, which in many ways is similar to dementia.
Greek Wikipedia is way behind other language versions in terms of information
related to brain disorders, and I have been meaning to establish an
advocacy group for some time mow (keep putting it off, too busy dealing with
other helath problems in the family).
I had no idea WP could be used as a platform to
collect and disseminate related information. I really hope I will be able to get
something similar started on Greek WP.
Keep up the great work:)
Regards,
Mina (Saintfevrier on EN-EL WP)
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:22
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Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Caregiving
and dementia workshop
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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