[WikiEN-l] Free data (UK government)

[Carcharoth]

Wow. Didn't know that. That's impressive! Thanks for pointing that out.

Carcharoth

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we should also note that one of "Wikimedia's own" was involved in
> this project from the beginning. In his professional capacity (not as a
> volunteer Wikimedian) former en.wp Arb - James Forrester (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester) has played an important roll
> in achieving the launch of data.gov.uk and the licensing arrangement
> therein. Congratulations!
>
> I'm also guessing that is no small part of the reason why their wiki just
> happens to be a heavily skinned MediaWiki :-)
> http://data.gov.uk/wiki/User:Jdforrester
>
> Now that it's live - I'd love to see if we can demonstrate some innovative
> re-use cases of the UK datasets on en.WP to help justify to the UK gov't
> (and other governments who are investigating releasing their data freely -
> like my own here in Australia) the positive outcomes of making their content
> available both Gratis and Libre.
>
> You might also be interested in Creative Commons' own blogpost about this
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20228
>
> Sincerely,
> -Liam [[witty lama]]
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2010/1/22 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>> > I *think* Mike Peel reads this list. I was about to do something else,
>> > so maybe someone else could point this out to them? They probably know
>> > already, but it wouldn't hurt to ask (I'm just not going to do it
>> > right now).
>>
>> Yes, we know already, but thanks for thinking of us!
>>
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