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
- Who we are? About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially that
WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh.
- 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 "maybe".
Leighton agreed to ask personally.
- 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.
- Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom? Leighton
said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question.
- The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that information
should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA
- He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to free
more data.
- 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.
--
Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain
01332 702993
0758 2020815
Google+:Victuallers
Skype:Victuallers1
Flickr:Victuallers2
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
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
- Who we are? About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially
that WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh.
- 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 "maybe".
Leighton agreed to ask personally.
- 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.
- Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom? Leighton
said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question.
- The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that
information should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA
- He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to free
more data.
- 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.
--
Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain
01332 702993
0758 2020815
Google+:Victuallers
Skype:Victuallers1
Flickr:Victuallers2
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Do you mean WPCY rather than WMCY?
On Jul 9, 2012 11:06 AM, "Roger Bamkin" <victuallers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
- Who we are? About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially
that WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh.
- 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
"maybe". Leighton agreed to ask personally.
- 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.
- Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom? Leighton
said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question.
- The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that
information should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA
- He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to free
more data.
- 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.
--
Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain
01332 702993
0758 2020815
Google+:Victuallers
Skype:Victuallers1
Flickr:Victuallers2
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We *are* WMCY and WM Scotland. Now let's giddy up and get on with the nice
stuff!
On Jul 9, 2012 5:10 PM, "Roger Bamkin" <victuallers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I guess so .... although WMCY is a possibility for the
future
On 9 July 2012 21:29, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do you mean WPCY rather than WMCY?
On Jul 9, 2012 11:06 AM, "Roger Bamkin" <victuallers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
- Who we are? About WMUK, WMCY, Monmouthpedia. We noted especially
that WMCY is the leading web site in Welsh.
- 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
"maybe". Leighton agreed to ask personally.
- 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.
- Could Wales be the leading nation for information freedom?
Leighton said he would challenge his fellow ministers with this question.
- The minister said that he was supportive of the idea that
information should be made commercially available freely. ie CC BY SA
- He would ask the Heritage minister about what could be done to
free more data.
- 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.
--
Roger Bamkin and Robin Owain
01332 702993
0758 2020815
Google+:Victuallers
Skype:Victuallers1
Flickr:Victuallers2
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