[Foundation-l] Wikimedia and public sector involvement, connections

[ChrisiPK]

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 at 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
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