Paralympics History Partnership

Paralympics Australia

The Paralympic History project is creating articles about Paralympic sport generally and the Paralympic movement in Australia. It is one of Australia’s longest running and successful Wikipedia equity projects.

This has included events held across Australia to improve coverage of Australian Paralympians.

Contributors:

  • Tony Naar - former General Manager Knowledge Services at the Australian Paralympic Committee
  • Greg Blood - Sport information specialist, interest Australian sport policy, history, politics, & AIS history.
  • Ross Mallett - Canberra based Wikimedian with an interest in Military History and the history of the Paralympics in Australia.

Blog posts

Celebrating Achievement: OAM Awarded to Sports Historian and Wikipedia Editor for Paralympic Contributions We are thrilled to congratulate Greg Blood on being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his outstanding service to sports history and information.
Creating and writing sports history on Wikipedia Ross Mallett reflects on his involvement in the History of Australian Paralympics Project in the blog post on Diff.
Paralympic history made visible How one of Australia’s longest running and successful Wikipedia equity projects is preserving Australian paralympic history, 23 February 2022
A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics Imagine covering the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. That's exactly what one Wikipedian did!

Reports

Paralympic History Project Events

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