Hi, Me an Jan from the WMF have been talking for a while that it could be very > useful to have detailed and structured information on the use of free > licenses by government press services and state archives agencies. >
Sounds interesting indeed! Commons host quite some freely-licensed works from government agencies, so this might be a useful starting point: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_governments> As a first step we have assembled all the national archives and all the > government press services of EU/EEA/CH countries. [1] Now, we might benefit > from your help. > > The idea is quite straightforward. We need to gather data on how each of > these organisations currently licenses their works. As a second step, we > will send them a written inquiry on whether they might be open to switching > to open licenses and if not, why. If this fails, we might file freedom of > information requests if we feel like there is data that should be public > but is being withheld. > > If think this is an interesting initiative and would like to help us out, > please get in touch here or directly contribute to the Meta-Wiki page. > > Cheers and have a great weekend! > Dimi > > [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Engage/FoI > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Jean-Frédéric
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