Historically, [[Wikipedia]] did not give much coverage to the Paralympics, because most paralympic athletes did not receive much independent media coverage and hence did not satisfy Wikipedia's notability test for having articles in its online encyclopedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_%28sports%29&oldid=507180157#Olympic_and_Paralympic_Games|title=Wikipedia:Notabiity (sports)|accessdate=August 30, 2012}}</ref> However, in 2011, the [[Australian Paralympic Committee]] (APC) issued an Request for Proposal to pay someone to write a history of Australia's paralympians.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/sites/default/files/APC%20Paralympic%20history%20request%20for%20proposals%20document.pdf|title=Paralymic History Request for Proposals|format=PDF|accessdate=August 30, 2012}}</ref> The original plans was for the resulting document to be published as a book. Instead, a team, which included the President (who was also then serving on the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee) and Vice President of Wikimedia Australia, won the contract and decided to post their work on Wikipedia. As a result, the APC hired one of them as a "Wikipedian in residence" and they also organized a competition to encourage volunteer editors to write about paralympians called "Wikimedians to the Games" offering as a prize two trips to London to cover the 2012 Paralympic Games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Paralympic_Movement_in_Australia/Wikimedians_to_the_Games|title=Wikimedians to the Games|accessdate=August 30, 2012}}</ref> The contest did not draw many entrants nor generate much content. Most of the content was generated by the paid writer instead of by volunteers. At the last minute, they proposed a new combined Olympic/paralympic competition.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Olympics/Paralympics&diff=prev&oldid=499714886|title=Olympic/Paralympic WikiCup? |date=June 28, 2012|accessdate=August 30, 3012}}</ref> Apparantly, the two people who are going to London to cover the Paralympics are the paid writer and her significant other.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Olympics/Paralympics&diff=prev&oldid=503661796|title=Covering the Olympics/Paralympics live and in person for Wikipedia and other WMF projects|date=July 22, 2012|accessdate=August 30, 2012}}</ref> Their "wikinews" coverage gained about 300-400 readers, worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ALauraHale&diff=509717911&oldid=507354260|title=User:LauraHale|accessdate=August 30, 2012}}</ref>
In December 2012, there was a separate funding controversy as these individuals travelled from Australia to Colorado in the United States to photograph and write about a [[skiing]] competition for para-sport athletes.<ref>http://www.wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Paralympic_Winter_Sports&oldid=8387</ref> They sought $4,635 in funding from the Australia Wikimedia Chapter for their trip, but started the trip before hearing a reply and pressed their funding claim while already on route. If Wikipedia relies upon secondary sources, it is not clear why they should fund amateur photographers and journalist to travel to para-sport events on the other side of the globe.
Nor was it clear why one of the thousands of Wikipedia volunteers in the United States could not have covered the event in Colorado instead of a three-person team from Australia. Perhaps to seek protection for this policy transgression, the editor has since publicly self-identified as "LGTBLGBT".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:LauraHale&diff=4455712&oldid=4455711|title=User:LauraHale|date=June 13, 2013}}</ref>
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