Robin Owain and I met Leighton Andrews (today) who is the Education Minister for Wales. The meeting arose out of the work that we are doing in Wales. This means Monmouthpedia and the Welsh Wicipedia (yes its spelt with a c). The meeting lasted less than 45 minutes but we covered<br>
<br><ul><li>Who we are?  About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially that WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh.</li><li>Welsh phone. There is no phone that will switch truly into Welsh. We had already tried getting his officials to ask and Google had said &quot;maybe&quot;. Leighton agreed to ask personally.</li>
<li>Welsh encyclopedia. There is a bilingual Welsh and English encyclopedia that was published in the last few years. Leighton said he would see if the copyright could be released to grow WMCY.</li><li>Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom? Leighton said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question.</li>
<li>The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that information should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA</li><li>He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to free more data.</li>
<li>Note: There is an experiment currently in progress to release 150 images from multiple sources to Wikimedia Commons. The objective is to find out why thousands more images could not be freely released. This is a WMUK (And Monmouthshire County Council)  inspired initiative.<br>
</li></ul><br>-- <br><div><font size="1">Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain<br></font></div>

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