Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/November 2012

Australian Wikipedians are holding an edit-a-thon about disability in Australia and disability sport, which is part of WikiProject Disability. The physical meetup in Sydney will be on 10 November 2012. Online participation is welcome! A similar workshop was run on French classical music in October 2012.

When

1–5 pm Saturday 10 November

Where

State Library of New South Wales

Venue

Study rooms. Lower Ground Level 2. State Library of New South Wales.

Go down the stairs from the Macquarie Street entrance, go to the desk, and ask for the booking for Wikipedia.

Sydney participants

• PeterJeremy (talk) 10:50, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
• Whiteghost.ink (talk) 02:29, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
• Wittylama 03:20, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
• James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 3:08pm • 05:08, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
• Murray Phillips , University of Queensland

Online participants

Online participation is encouraged. If you are interested in helping, add your name here:

• John Vandenberg ^(chat) 07:58, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
• Graham87 08:39, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
• Tony (talk) 10:15, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

To do

• WikiProject infrastructure
  • Portal:Disability, Template:Disability navbox, Template:Disability sidebar
  • Create a sidebar dedicated to Disability sports
  • Create a sidebar dedicated to Disability arts ?
• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Disability/to do list
  • Organisations and institutions
    • Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
    • Disabled Peoples' International
      • "Disability Australia Ltd" is the Australian branch. [1]
    • Society for Disability Studies
  • Supportive housing doesnt cover disability very well
• Disability in Australia Disability, Australia, 2009Facts on Disability in NSW
  • Australian Federation of Disability Organisations [2]
  • Disability Services Australia [3]
  • National Council on Intellectual Disability - national peak body for organisations representing people with intellectual disability.
  • Association for Children with Disabilities (Victoria)[4]
  • Technology Assisting Disability WA
  • Bear in Mind->Brain Injury Matters (Victoria)[5][6]
  • Developmental Disability Council of WA [7] (the link on [8] is wrong)
  • Blind Citizens Australia [9]
  • Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT)
  • Early Childhood Intervention Australia [10]
• Physically integrated dance
• Disability arts in Australia
  • Restless Dance Theatre
  • Back to Back Theatre Company [11]
  • Honeybee Creations [12]
  • Arts Access Australia [13]
• Disability sports by impairment
  • Visually impaired sports
  • Hearing impaired sports
  • Amputee sports
  • Intellectual disability sports
• Disability sports in Australia Y stub with basic timeline under development
  • Kevin Betts stadium
  • Australian Sports Commission doesnt mention disability[14]
    • Sport and Recreation Services ACT
    • NSW Sport and Recreation
    • Office of Sport and Recreation NT
    • Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association
    • Office for Recreation and Sport SA
    • Sport and Recreation Tasmania
    • Sport and Recreation Victoria
    • Department of Sport and Recreation WA
  • Wheelchair Sports Australia (previously "Australian Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Sports Federation") see Kevin Betts and [15]. Also International Wheelchair Sports Federation.
  • National Wheelchair Basketball League (Australia)‎
  • Blind Cricket Australia - see Blind_cricket#Australia and other sections
  • Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association
  • Wheelchair Sports Association of South Australia
  • Disabled Winter Sport Australia
• Category:Disability, Category:Disability organizations, Category:Disability in Australia, Category:Australian disability organisations‎
• Category:Assistive technology (disperse category)
  • Adaptive ski and snowboarding equipment [16]
  • Mobility Plus [17]
  • Glide Rehabilitation Products [18] about us
  • Mogo Wheelchairs  Done
• Disability law and public policies
  • Category:Disability law, Category:Disability law in Australia & Category:Discrimination law in Australia
  • Assistive Technology Acts (US)
  • National Relay Service/Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency/Telecommunications Act 1997/Telecommunications (Equipment for the Disabled) Regulations 1998
  • National Disability Insurance Scheme (Australia) [19]
  • The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act (1979) includes "unintended obstacles to web-based captioned telephony for Australians with a hearing impairment"[20]
  • Australian Disability Parking Scheme (or at least an Australian section in Disabled parking permit)
    • I've banged a few sentences together about it at Disabled parking permit#Australia. Graham87
  • Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme [21]
• Disability education in Australia
  • Aspect schools
  • blind/deaf/... schools
• Education Program
  • Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities (Kimberly Hoang and Diana Strassmann)
  • disability and poverty