Absolutely fair point, Lodewijk. Short answer: the idea went through a metamorphosis and was constantly pushed back in time. Anyhow, the name of the site, the image and the link are now changed: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Engage/GovernmentLicenses
2016-09-12 16:00 GMT+02:00 L.Gelauff <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I'm a little confused :) The page is called 'Freedom of information' and > this is also what the logo emphasizes. This is a well known concept, which > is all about disclosing information. > > Now this specific question seems however to be focused on the license > under which certain organizations publish stuff (?) although it is unclear > in which capacity, etc. > > It feels like two questions/areas are being mixed here, and I'm not sure > if that is helpful :) > > Best, > Lodewijk > > 2016-09-12 12:18 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric <[email protected]>: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Publicpolicy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > >
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