Is it possible to convince more international non-profits and government organisations (especially taxpayer-funded research organisations) that it would be in their interest as well to share the findings under some Creative Commons licenses? FN
SEE: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > *fantastic*. Thanks all for this, and thanks Jorge for the update. > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:32 AM Jorge Vargas <jvar...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Following up on my earlier thread about this, we are excited to announce >> a new collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the World Health >> Organization (WHO). The collaboration will initially focus on releasing WHO >> content such as public-health related infographics, videos, and other >> COVID-19 resources under a free license (CC BY SA 3.0) to be shared on >> Wikimedia Commons. We are hopeful that these resources will be useful for >> volunteers writing about COVID-19 across language wikis and further expand >> access to knowledge about the pandemic to people around the world. >> >> You can read more about the collaboration announcement in the press >> release we published earlier today [1], and see the first batch of content >> uploads from WHO on Wikimedia Commons [2]. If you want to help share the >> collaboration news on social media, please retweet the Foundation’s account >> [3] or share your own post using this toolkit [4]. >> >> I want to give a major thank you and shout out to the volunteers >> (including Doc James, Dr. Netha Hussain, John Cummings, and many others) >> who have been moving these conversations with WHO forward for years, as >> well as to the many Wikimedians providing accurate and relevant coverage of >> COVID-19 on the projects that this collaboration hopes to support. We are >> so excited to finally reach this milestone with WHO. >> >> In the coming months, Alex Stinson, from our Community Programs team, >> will be working with volunteers to continue sharing details of the WHO >> content available on Commons and collaborating with volunteers to >> understand how WHO resources might help address information needs and gaps >> about COVID-19 on the projects. We need your help identifying the most >> useful content. Please join us on the project page on Commons to request >> WHO materials, and ask questions or give feedback on the project [5]. >> >> We are excited to celebrate this important achievement in making more >> knowledge about COVID-19 freely available to everyone in such a critical >> time in the world. Thank you to all who made this possible! >> >> Feel free to reach out on this thread or to Alex and I directly in case >> you have further questions about this collaboration. >> >> Jorge Vargas >> Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships >> >> [1] >> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/ >> >> [2] >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID-19_Disinformation_Infographics >> >> [3] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1319263874303037442 >> >> [4] >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn4kvA/edit?usp=sharing >> >> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska <777.z...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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, <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> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jorge Vargas >> Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships >> Wikimedia Foundation >> jvar...@wikimedia.org >> +1 415.310.5922 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> >> > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > _______________________________________________ > 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> >
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