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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From: Laura Hale
To: members(a)wikimedia.org.au ; Wikimedia Australia members-only discussion list. ;
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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
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