This is amazing. This gives motivation to so many
who have been working
tirelessly to provide Covid information on Wikipedia projects. Thank you
and Congratulations to all who made it possible.
Regards,
Manav
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:36 PM Frederick Noronha <
fredericknoronha(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.…
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)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 <jvargas(a)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-a…
>>
>> [2]
>>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID…
>>
>> [3]
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1319263874303037442
>>
>> [4]
>>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn…
>>
>> [5]
>>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska <777.zana(a)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, <jmh649(a)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(a)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 <
>>> > > andy(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
>>> > >
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