[Wikimedia-l] Media Release about WMAU's collaboration with the Australian Paralympic Movement

[John Andersson]

This is really interesting Craig! Thank you for sharing.

Perhaps you could share some information about the application to make it easier for other chapters to create similar projects? https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_grant_applications 

Best,

John

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> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:43:16 +1000
> From: cfranklin at halonetwork.net
> To: wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org; wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Media Release about WMAU's collaboration with the Australian Paralympic Movement
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> As you may be aware, Wikimedia Australia (WMAU) has been working for a
> period of time now to improve the quality of coverage on Wikimedia projects
> of Paralympic and disabled sports.  A joint project between WMAU, the
> Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) and the University of Queensland (UQ)
> has recently been successful in attracting funding from the Australian
> Research Council.
> 
> Our friends at UQ have issued a media release on behalf of those involved
> in the project that gives a bit of background as to what it's all about and
> what we hope to achieve:
> 
> http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26747
> 
> At WMAU, we feel that apart from making more information available on
> Wikimedia on this often neglected area, projects like this one have a role
> in increasing diversity on our projects, in this case, encouraging more
> disabled people to participate by providing outreach and editing workshops
> focusing on a topic that is of interest to many of them.
> 
> Regards,
> Craig Franklin
> President - Wikimedia Australia
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