Caregiving and dementia/Wiki training/Nature of project

Nature of the project

 * 1) Project purpose:
 * 2) The caregiving and dementia wiki is a knowledge transfer project, initiated by the NSW/ACT Dementia Training Study Centre, which seeks to collate and build open materials about caregiving and dementia.
 * 3) For more information, see About.
 * 4) Free and open knowledge resources:
 * 5) This wiki project seeks to build on, and develop, free and open knowledge resources about caring for people with dementia.
 * 6) This means that contributed content must be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution or Share-alike licenses or be in the public domain.
 * 7) For a quick overview of copyright, creative commons, and creating shared culture, see these videos:
 * 8) A shared culture (03:10 mins)
 * 9) Copyright and creative commons (4:00 mins)
 * 10) More about copyright and licensing will be discussed during the wiki skills section.
 * 11) What is a wiki?:
 * 12) To get started with using and contributing to a wiki, it is important to understand "What is a wiki?":
 * 13) Wiki - the Wikipedia article about wikis
 * 14) Wikis in Plain English  (Commoncraft; 4 min video which explains wikis)
 * 15) What is Wikiversity?:
 * 16) The caregiving and dementia wiki is currently hosted using Wikiversity. Learn more about Wikiversity:
 * 17) What is Wikiversity? - An introductory overview of the Wikiversity project
 * 18) What is the Wikimedia Foundation and what are the sister projects?
 * 19) Wikiversity belongs to an ecology of specific wikis, collectively known as the "sister projects" which are hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation.
 * 20) The sister projects include:
 * 21) Wikipedia (for encyclopedic content)
 * 22) WikiNews (for news)
 * 23) Wiki Commons (for images, audio, and video)