Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/Paralympics Workshop

Australian Wikipedians are holding a second edit-a-thon at SLNSW about disability in Australia and disability sport, which is part of the History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia project and WikiProject Disability. The physical meetup in Sydney will be on Saturday 21 September 2013. Online participation is welcome! The first workshop was run on in November 2012.

The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia Outreach project pages

When: 10 am - 5 pm Saturday 21 September 2013

Where: Flinders Room, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney.
See the State Library's website "getting here" page.

Topic edit

Wheelchair rugby - Murderball!

Sydney will be hosting the Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations competition on Wed 18 - Fri 20 September 2013 (i.e. immediately prior to the edit-a-thon). Free tickets to the games will be available to edit-a-thon participants to specially encourage you to edit articles about the wheelchair rugby (aka Murderball). But you are still most welcome if there are other disability sport topics that you prefer to work on.

Free Tickets to the Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations edit

To get your free tickets, sign up below for the edit-a-thon, check this match schedule and email Tony Naar at the Australian Paralympic Committee to request your tickets. Tony promises us that this is an fast-paced exciting action-packed sport and these are the three of the best national teams in the world!

Venue edit

The venue for the physical meeting is located within the State Reference Library (Lower Ground 1), which can be accessed by a lift. The room has tables, power, and wifi.

Bags and food/drinks are not allowed into the room. Lockers will be provided for attendees to store their bags ($1 for four hours).

The Library has its own café on site, which is open on the day.

Attendees edit

Hawkeye7 (talk)
Aussiesportlibrarian (talk)
Tony.naar (talk)
Dawn Renshaw (talk)
Murray Phillips
Gary Osmond

Online participation edit

If you can't attend, but are interested in participating online, please add your name here.

Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:22, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
John Vandenberg ^(chat) 07:38, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
James ^{(T • C)} • 9:48pm • 10:48, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
AugurNZ ✐⌕ 03:47, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resources edit

Andy Carr is a senior librarian at SLNSW with an interest in resources for sports history research. Andy will be available for the workshop on an 'on call' basis, depending on the level of activity at the Information Desk.

Electronic resources edit

A selection of the Sydney Paralympics 2000 websites have been archived in PANDORA.
The National Sport Information Centre's Clearinghouse for Sport has annual reports of the Australian Paralympic Committee.

Print resources edit

Andy will make the following items available to the Wikipedians in the Flinders Room on 21 September. Please add to the list if you find any other items of use on the State Library of New South Wales catalogue.

Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled. Recreation for the handicapped: Report on the Australian Conference on Recreation for the Handicapped. 1974. SRL N790.196/6 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1448166

Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled. Report on recreation for the handicapped and summary of recreation services available. ca. 1973. SRL N790.196/4 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1448498

Bailey, Steve. Athlete first : a history of the paralympic movement. 2008. SRL N796.0874/1 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2709766

Cashman, Richard, and Darcy, Simon (eds). Benchmark games : The Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. 2008. SRL N796.48/375 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2707742

Cleland, Shawn. From gladiators to thundervolts : the wheelchair hockey story. ca. 1993. ML 796.355/18 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1575869

DePauw, Karen P., and Gavron, Susan J. Disability sport. 2005 (2nd ed.). SRL N796.087/1 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2270811

[Ephemera on the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games : including pamphlets, leaflets, guides etc., produced in the lead up to and staging of the Games : material relates to Olympic and Paralympic venues, events, programs, marketing, sponsorship, cultural activities, festivals, volunteers, transport and environmental issues]. Box 14, Paralympics. ML Q796.48/327/Box 14 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2107381

Guttmann, Ludwig. Textbook of sport for the disabled. 1977. ML 790.196/1 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b3643734

International Paralympic Committee. Official results book Paralympic Games Sydney 2000. 2000. ML Q796.0456/9 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2069332

Media Monitors press clippings relating to Sydney 2000 Paralympics. 1992-2000. 13 boxes. ML Q796.48/401 SET http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2078060

Smith, Jeanette. Pushing strong : celebrating fifty years of wheelchair sports NSW 1961-2011. 2011. ML on order: not available on 21 September http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b3686647

Swanton, Will. Murderball : head to head with Australia's toughest team. 2009. SRL N796.3336/2 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b3020812

Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee. Annual Report. 1996-2000. ML Q796.0196099/6 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1820793

Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee. Media Release. 22 Nov. 1996-30 Oct. 2000. ML Q796.0196099/6 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1836467

Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee. Paralympic Games results : Rome 1960 to Atlanta 1996. 2000. ML Q796.0456/11 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2071568

Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee. Post Games Report. ca. 2002. ML Q796.0456/18 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2096063

Sydney Paralympics Bid Committee. Paralympics Sydney 2000 : submission from the Sydney Paralympics Bid Committee to the International Paralympic Committee to host the Paralympics 2000 in the city of Sydney, Australia. 1993. ML Q796.0196099/2 http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1590479

To do edit

Add editing ideas here:

If anyone wants to start disability in Australia, there are a bunch of demographic maps that might help at commons:Category:Demographic maps of people who have need for assistance in Australia. This one is the fraction of the population in need of assistance in a core activity.

Wheel Blacks needs a lot of loving.
- Their coach was 'Peter Martin'; is Peter Martin (athlete) the same person? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 02:41, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- As I mentioned in a recent short essay in my Metapedia userspace, I'm keen to see the Wheel Blacks page get some attention. From what I've seen, there aren't that many pics of the team on Commons, and that is something I intend to address.

Also, I understand that former Wheel Blacks great, and television personality Curtis Palmer has defected recently, and is now playing for the Australian national murderball team. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 03:58, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Create articles about people mentioned on /History of athletes and staff
mention tri-nation comp at Australia national wheelchair rugby team?
Create article Ben Fawcett using photo File:Ben Fawcett.jpg

Done edit

result added to Wheelchair_rugby#International_competitions and Wheel Blacks. Images added to United States national wheelchair rugby team and Wheel Blacks
wikinews:Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series begins in Sydney and wikinews:United States wins Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations Series in Sydney
As part of this GLAM event, I decided to place a telephone call to the current president of the NZ Wheelchair Rugby Association, Tim Johnson. Introducing myself as a Wikipedian and a fan of the Wheel Blacks, I inquired as to how we might expand the current stub page. I was invited to a team training camp in the start of October, where I will be given permission to take photographs of the team behind-the-scenes. Expect to see something on Wikimedia Commons soon afterwards! Tim also mentioned that he can draft some blurb for the page and send it to me for uploading to the encyclopedia. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 04:16, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
New articles:
- Attitude (TV series); NZ program related to Curtis Palmer
- Barney Konerferisi, related to Attitude (TV series)
- Ben Fawcett, as suggested in "To do" section
Draft started: User:99of9/Disability in Australia, please pitch in. --99of9 (talk) 11:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]