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) ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura Hale To: members(a)wikimedia.org.au ; Wikimedia Australia members-only discussion list. ; education(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:22 AM 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 -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education