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:
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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