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 - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sverige Project Leader Europeana Awareness Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: [email protected] Skype: johnandersson86 Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana Would you like to support free knowledge? Please consider becoming a member of Wikimedia Sweden! > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:43:16 +1000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
