Do you mean WPCY rather than WMCY? On Jul 9, 2012 11:06 AM, "Roger Bamkin" <victuall...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robin Owain and I met Leighton Andrews (today) who is the Education > Minister for Wales. The meeting arose out of the work that we are doing in > Wales. This means Monmouthpedia and the Welsh Wicipedia (yes its spelt with > a c). The meeting lasted less than 45 minutes but we covered > > > - Who we are? About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially > that WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh. > - Welsh phone. There is no phone that will switch truly into Welsh. We > had already tried getting his officials to ask and Google had said "maybe". > Leighton agreed to ask personally. > - Welsh encyclopedia. There is a bilingual Welsh and English > encyclopedia that was published in the last few years. Leighton said he > would see if the copyright could be released to grow WMCY. > - Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom? Leighton > said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question. > - The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that > information should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA > - He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to free > more data. > - Note: There is an experiment currently in progress to release 150 > images from multiple sources to Wikimedia Commons. The objective is to find > out why thousands more images could not be freely released. This is a WMUK > (And Monmouthshire County Council) inspired initiative. > > > -- > Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain > 01332 702993 > 0758 2020815 > Google+:Victuallers > Skype:Victuallers1 > Flickr:Victuallers2 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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