An amazing partnership. Great to see the work of so many volunteers over so many years resulting in a huge step forwards :-) And thank you to the WHO for joining the free and open access medical community.
J
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:00 AM Subhashish psubhashish@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for sharing this, Jorge. This is a news that is positive but not the scary kind! WHO resources have been already used widely across communities and have helped create localized resources. This initiative will strengthen many Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects across the movement.
Subhashish
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:02 PM Jorge Vargas jvargas@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-an...
[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/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn4...
[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska 777.zana@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@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@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@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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