Re: [GLAM] Fwd: Wikimedia Israel and the Israeli News Company bring new video content to the Wikimedia projects

Hi friends, Something I think will be interesting for some of you. Can such partnership could be consider as GLAM as well? *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel &lt;itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il&gt; Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:53 AM Subject: Wikimedia Israel and the Israeli News Company bring new video content to the Wikimedia projects To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Hi, We happy announce a new partnership with the Israeli News Company, which produces the primetime news program on Israel’s Channel 2. For the past 23 years, Channel 2 News has covered the history of Israel and the Middle East, as well as events around the world. The partnership is aiming to introduce a hundred new video files <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Israel_-_Channel_2_videos> on current affairs to be added, remixed, and shared on the Wikimedia projects. Videos cover footage from important historical events like the Oslo Accords <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel2_-_Oslo_Accords.webm>, the Israel–Jordan peace treaty <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty.webm> ,Jerusalem and the Western Wall <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Jerusalem.webm>, the Dead Sea <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel2_-_Dead_Sea.webm> and even videos of Japan <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Japan.webm>and India <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_India.webm>, footage of Israeli leaders such as Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Benjamin_Netanyahu.webm> , President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Reuven_(Ruvi)_Rivlin.webm>, former *President *Shimon Peres <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel2_-_Shimon_Peres.webm> and more You can read more about it on the Wikimedia blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/06/israel-video-wikimedia/ Our volunteers already started to embed this video on Wikipedia articles in many languages. You are welcome to help in your language!. See project page on HEWP for more information: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7… You are welcome to visit the project page on Commons to see what video files are available and request other videos! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Channel_2_(Israel)_project *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! _______________________________________________ GLAM mailing list GLAM(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam