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 licenses... some communities think about informative
sitenotices, I even saw Wikipedia logos with masks suggested for the situation.
I am collecting these situations while I discover them and I wonder, is it
possible to discuss them with WHO and now if they are good or bad, just get a
third-party feedback? We are often improvising in good faith.
Otherwise, we will simply ask at the national level, I guess.
It's not that I cannot for example ask an Italian doctor for, let's say, a
useful image right now, I just would like to avoid doing that because they have
more important battles to fight.
A.M.
Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 20:56:02 CET, Jorge Vargas
<jvar...@wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
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 more
coordinated/holistic approach, in addition, and in collaboration with all the
amazing local and regional efforts already taking place and being led by
affiliates worldwide.
One immediate result (and thanks to work supported by John Cummings and
Wikimedia Argentina) we have been working closely with UN Human Rights [1] to
support ongoing and future efforts to distribute and create content related to
human rights (#WikiForHumanRights, with more info on this post [2] and meta
[3]), and now their support to gender-related initiatives like the
WIkiGapChallenge [4]). All of this to say that part of that agreement was
starting to navigate how to get more UN-copyrighted content on a free license
(starting with content from UN Human Rights, but broadening the scope to other
agencies).
Part of this work has been understanding the complexity to navigate
decision-making within the UN system for things like copyright ownership and
licensing of content. From our understanding so far, even if a UN agency (like
UN Human Rights or UNICEF) wants to free up content, a decision needs to happen
from the UN Publications Office in NY (an exception to this are decentralized
agencies, like UNESCO, who can make that call themselves). We have been
lobbying with UN Publications Office to better understand where they stand, but
as mentioned, when they do use a free license, they include an NC clause by
default.
I want to take this opportunity to rally ongoing efforts, approaches, etc being
done by folks reading this. Ping me here or off-thread if you'd like to share
more of what you've done so far (I'll follow up with you James! Thanks for
already taking the lead in contacting WHO before). Ideally, mapping what
stakeholders are on the table right now and what past conversations have
happened will help us make progress in getting traction as we and the movement
at large continue the conversation.
Feel free to reach out anytime if you have any comments or questions.
Thanks!Jorge
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-rights-partner-to-expand-wikipedias-knowledge/[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/10/wikimedia-foundation-and-un-human-rights-launch-wikiforhumanrights-campaign/[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights[4]
https://standup4humanrights.org/en/2020/highlights_04.html
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:44 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
<wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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/ ]
>
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