[Wikimedia-l] Planned school curriculum by MPAA

[Andrew Lih]

You are right, that the lack of a national US chapter holds us back.

The obvious solution is to create a new group: Committee of Wikipedian
Parents Interested in Education, aka COWPIE




On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Jens Best <jens.best at wikimedia.de> wrote:

> This is obviously a propaganda campaign focused on children which isn't
> reflecting on the variety of ownership and sharing-enabling licences. It is
> against the idea of free knowledge. Therefore it is a
> political/sociocultural problem which is against the spreading of the
> knowledge about free knowledge and its basic principles.
>
> But as this is an US-American problem it should be handled by an
> US-American Wikimedia chapter...as there is imo no US-American chapter WMF
> could act as a representative for Wikimedia-related problems in an
> US-country education system.
>
> best regards
>
> Jens Best
>
>
>
> 2013/9/25 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>
> > On 25 September 2013 20:23, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From the message on the web site, the WMF is a "nonprofit charitable
> > > organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and
> > > distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to
> providing
> > > the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of
> > charge."
> > > Inside a California public school, the WMF should indeed have an
> interest
> > > in making sure that students using Wikipedia don't think to themselves
> > that
> > > using such material is "stealing" and that someone is expecting to be
> > > "paid."
> >
> >
> >
> > Pretty much. It's in our direct interest that this not go ahead as
> planned.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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