Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks to the excellent broadcasting efforts by ABC TV, interest in the Paralympic Games reached new heights. The website of the Australian Paralympic Committee received a record increase in traffic, with over a million views during the games. Part of the team of volunteers led by Tony Naar from the APC worked for hundreds of hours pulling together information on the history of the paralympic movement in Australia, the Paralympians themselves and the classification system. This was done using detailed pages through Wikipedia—essentially, a crowd-sourcing exercise tapping into the wealth of knowledge that exists within and around the sporting and Paralympian community in Australia. Since the games began, these pages have been viewed more than 230,000 times. For everyone with a keen interest in the Paralympics— (Time expired)