[Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

2020-03-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence such material, as I have done, here: https://twitter.com/pigsonthe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

2020-03-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central office quickly in Geneva if necessary. Changing some licenses was one of the

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2020-03-12 Thread James Heilman
I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under open licenses since since Feb 2020. I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc. They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seeme

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2020-03-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
Well, we did our share. For both medical and social aspects, we were there. I was hoping at least to get some guidelines for our affiliates' social media... Alessandro Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 19:35:56 CET, Damon Sicore ha scritto: Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world. On

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2020-03-12 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi all, Jorge Vargas, WMF's Sr. Manager for Regional Partnerships here. Wanted to quickly chime in to mention that as several folks on this list know, WMF has been more proactive in the past year or so to build bridges with UN agencies to see how they can better support our movement and have a mor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

2020-03-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
Besides CC for content, I was guidelines to get some guideline for communication. That is something agencies can do. In general we are here posting or twitting or creating article or advocating for media files to be uploaded, or sharing public data on social media when they are under acceptable

Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

2020-03-13 Thread Damon Sicore
Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM James Heilman wrote: > I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under > open licenses since since Feb 2020. > > I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their > co

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2020-03-13 Thread Zana Strkovska
The same video translated on Macedonian language is on national television in my country several days already. Regards, Zana On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, 19:30 James Heilman, wrote: > I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under > open licenses since since Feb 2020. > > I h