Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has been any (official) connection between members of the public sector and projects of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences).
I would be interested in cases, when for example * the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its statutes or provided other kinds of content for it * the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the explanatory section of their bills * members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for advice on free licences and their use in the public sector.
I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government has chosen open content licences to publish their data.
I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories (e.g. the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that might be going on.
Thank you, Bence Damokos
Recently 100,000 historical photos were released by some German agency (Can't think of it's name) to the wikimedia commons.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has been any (official) connection between members of the public sector and projects of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences).
I would be interested in cases, when for example
- the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its
statutes or provided other kinds of content for it
- the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the explanatory
section of their bills
- members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for
advice on free licences and their use in the public sector.
I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government has chosen open content licences to publish their data.
I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories (e.g. the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that might be going on.
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There has been a 100k image donation by the German federal archive (Bundesarchiv). A brief description of the project is on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv
Regards,
ChrisiPK
Patton 123 schrieb:
Recently 100,000 historical photos were released by some German agency (Can't think of it's name) to the wikimedia commons.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has been any (official) connection between members of the public sector and projects of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences).
I would be interested in cases, when for example
- the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its
statutes or provided other kinds of content for it
- the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the explanatory
section of their bills
- members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for
advice on free licences and their use in the public sector.
I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government has chosen open content licences to publish their data.
I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories (e.g. the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that might be going on.
Thank you, Bence Damokos _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Hoi, That was the Bundesarchiv. Thanks, GerardM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bundesarchiv
2009/2/15 Patton 123 pattonabc@gmail.com
Recently 100,000 historical photos were released by some German agency (Can't think of it's name) to the wikimedia commons.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has been any (official) connection between members of the public sector and
projects
of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences).
I would be interested in cases, when for example
- the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its
statutes or provided other kinds of content for it
- the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the explanatory
section of their bills
- members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for
advice on free licences and their use in the public sector.
I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government has chosen open content licences to publish their data.
I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories
(e.g.
the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that might be going on.
Thank you, Bence Damokos _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Hi,Thank you for your replies. Are there any notable examples you could mention, or point me to?
Best regards, Bence
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, That was the Bundesarchiv. Thanks, GerardM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bundesarchiv
2009/2/15 Patton 123 pattonabc@gmail.com
Recently 100,000 historical photos were released by some German agency (Can't think of it's name) to the wikimedia commons.
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has
been
any (official) connection between members of the public sector and
projects
of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences).
I would be interested in cases, when for example
- the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its
statutes or provided other kinds of content for it
- the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the
explanatory
section of their bills
- members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for
advice on free licences and their use in the public sector.
I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government
has
chosen open content licences to publish their data.
I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories
(e.g.
the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that might be going on.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 21:28, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,Thank you for your replies. Are there any notable examples you could mention, or point me to?You might be interested in the German initiative of working with a state-funded Institute to write articles in Wikipedia about Sustainable Raw materials: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Nachwachsende_Rohstoffe
http://www.nachwachsende-rohstoffe.info/nachricht.php?id=20070626-02
And I believe Wikimedia Israel did some work on influencing the copyright law.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_copyright_law
Cheers,
Delphine
Wikimedia Nederland has: * Participated in the greenbook about copyright reform in the European Union * Written a letter to the government which resulted in the release of portrait photographs of all members of the current cabinet under GFDL * Talked to members of the parliament about copyright reform and free licenses.
-- Hay
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 21:28, Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,Thank you for your replies. Are there any notable examples you could mention, or point me to?You might be interested in the German initiative of working with a state-funded Institute to write articles in Wikipedia about Sustainable Raw materials: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Nachwachsende_Rohstoffe
http://www.nachwachsende-rohstoffe.info/nachricht.php?id=20070626-02
And I believe Wikimedia Israel did some work on influencing the copyright law.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Israeli_new_copyright_law
Cheers,
Delphine
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The local government of Seoul, Korea, is preparing to donate some of her contents. For the donation they approached to the bureaucrats of ko.wp, because we don't have a local chapter in Korea. Finally they decided to publish them in a major web portal in Korea in condition of free license. The portal donated an encyclopedia last year, so they have some experience to add the contents. I think it's OK anyway.
I hope the foundation would promote contents donation in addition to raising fund. The promotion would really work for the WP projects which don't yet have critical mass to evolve dramatically.
You could refer to this page for the case (sorry, it's in Korean):
http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EC%84%9C%...
I would like to write some lines after the donation soon.
Thank you.
-Cheol
2009/2/16 Bence Damokos bdamokos@gmail.com:
Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has been any (official) connection between members of the public sector and projects of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences).
I would be interested in cases, when for example
- the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its
statutes or provided other kinds of content for it
- the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the explanatory
section of their bills
- members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for
advice on free licences and their use in the public sector.
I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government has chosen open content licences to publish their data.
I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories (e.g. the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that might be going on.
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