You are right, that the lack of a national US chapter holds us back.
The obvious solution is to create a new group: Committee of Wikipedian Parents Interested in Education, aka COWPIE
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Jens Best jens.best@wikimedia.de wrote:
This is obviously a propaganda campaign focused on children which isn't reflecting on the variety of ownership and sharing-enabling licences. It is against the idea of free knowledge. Therefore it is a political/sociocultural problem which is against the spreading of the knowledge about free knowledge and its basic principles.
But as this is an US-American problem it should be handled by an US-American Wikimedia chapter...as there is imo no US-American chapter WMF could act as a representative for Wikimedia-related problems in an US-country education system.
best regards
Jens Best
2013/9/25 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
On 25 September 2013 20:23, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
From the message on the web site, the WMF is a "nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to
providing
the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of
charge."
Inside a California public school, the WMF should indeed have an
interest
in making sure that students using Wikipedia don't think to themselves
that
using such material is "stealing" and that someone is expecting to be "paid."
Pretty much. It's in our direct interest that this not go ahead as
planned.
- d.
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