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The APC seeks to promote paralympic sports and to preserve their heritage through a Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame inducted its first three members in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/apc-programs/australian-paralympic-hall-fame/australian-paralympic-hall-fame|title=Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>

The APC seeks to promote paralympic sports and to preserve their heritage through a Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame inducted its first three members in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/apc-programs/australian-paralympic-hall-fame/australian-paralympic-hall-fame|title=Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>

The APC's history project seeks to record the past of paralympic sports in Australia through scholarly research and oral histories.  The APC conducted a competitive tender in early 2011 for authors to write a formal history book at the expense of APC.  One applicant submitted an innovative proposal that would crowd-source the research using wiki software instead of scholars conducting traditional research on a paid basis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Tender|title=The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Tender|date=4 March 2011|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>  At first, the project was to produce a book that would be printed on-demand by Pediapress, with content developed on wikiversity.org.  The project team included John Vandenberg, President of Wikimedia Australia and a member of the prestigious Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Although Wikipedia normally prohibits paid editing on its encyclopedia, the APC history project was reclassified as a "GLAM" (Galleries, Libraries, Archieves and Museums)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia|title=History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref> allowing it to pay people to add content to the main encyclopedia as a hagiography.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hagiography|title=hagiography|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref> Currently, Laura Hale (Vice President of Wikimedia Australia) is the paid Wikipedian in residence at APC.

The APC's history project seeks to record the past of paralympic sports in Australia through scholarly research and oral histories.  The APC conducted a competitive tender in early 2011 for authors to write a formal history book at the expense of APC.  One applicant submitted an innovative proposal that would crowd-source the research using wiki software as more cost-effective than just scholars conducting traditional research on a paid basis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Tender|title=The History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia/Tender|date=4 March 2011|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>  At first, the project was to produce a book that would be printed on-demand by Pediapress, with content developed on wikiversity.org.  The project team included John Vandenberg, President of Wikimedia Australia and a member of the prestigious Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Although Wikipedia normally prohibits paid editing on its encyclopedia, the APC history project was reclassified as a "GLAM" (Galleries, Libraries, Archieves and Museums)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia|title=History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref> allowing it to pay people to add content to the main encyclopedia as a hagiography.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hagiography|title=hagiography|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref> Currently, Laura Hale (Vice President of Wikimedia Australia) is the paid Wikipedian in residence at APC.

The history project is particularly noteworthy because of its writing contest.  Instead of paying authors to add relevant content to Wikipedia, the project is sponsoring a competition with the two authors who add the most content winning an all-expense paid trip to the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.  This represents the largest prize purse ever awarded in a Wikipedia competition.<ref>{{cite web|ur=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Wikimedians_to_the_Games|title=Wikimedians to the Games|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>  As of February 10, five people have signed up for the contest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Wikimedians_to_the_Games/Participant|title=Participants|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>

The history project is particularly noteworthy because of its writing contest.  Instead of paying authors to add relevant content to Wikipedia, the project is sponsoring a competition with the two authors who add the most content winning an all-expense paid trip to the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.  This represents the largest prize purse ever awarded in a Wikipedia competition.<ref>{{cite web|ur=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Wikimedians_to_the_Games|title=Wikimedians to the Games|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>  As of February 10, five people have signed up for the contest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Wikimedians_to_the_Games/Participant|title=Participants|accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref>

If this contest proves successful, Hale hopes to use APC as a model and advise other sports regarding the crowd-sourcing of their heritage.

If this contest proves successful, Hale hopes to use APC as a model and advise other sports regarding the crowd-sourcing of their heritage.

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