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 <da...@sicore.com> ha scritto: Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> 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 collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc. They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-( James On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 things I hoped to discuss, but in > general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some time. > > In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end, > probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the > pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO, > when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started > to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after China, > Iran and South Korea). > > They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they > finally reach out. > > Regards. > Alessandro > > Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett < > a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto: > > 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/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777 > > [much of their published material is under NC restrictions - > https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ] > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>