Hi,

Thanks for the document. I've wrote in May a small report about
Wikipedia and Covid-19 for a French committee about Fake news.
Unfortunately it's in French ;)


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_France_-_COVID-19.pdf


Best,
Pyb

Le 2020-08-10 19:30, Anna Mazgal a écrit :

> Lilli,
thanks so much for sharing and for driving the English version to
completion. We will definitely make use of that. 
> Best wishes, 
> Anna

> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 6:15 PM Lilli Iliev
<[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> COVID-19
reveals the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT and
informational freedom for years to come. It will serve as a reference
point for pointing out the MERIT OF VOLUNTARY WORK FOR WIKIPEDIA all
over the world. 
>> 
>> So WMDE decided to focus it's SUMMER POLICY
BRIEF on how Wikipedia helps people all over the world with vital and
trusted medical information ("COVID-19: Wie Wikipedia uns durch
unsichere Zeiten hilft") [1] in june and distributed it to 6 federal
parliamentary comittees of relevance for free knowledge. 
>> 
>> We now
had it translated to provide it to Wikimedians who might find it useful,
e.g. for approaching policy makers in their local contexts: 
>>
"COVID-19: HOW WIKIPEDIA HELPS US THROUGH UNCERTAIN TIMES" [2] 
>> 
>>
OUR MAIN CALLS TO PARLIAMENTS AND GOVERNMENTS: 
>> 
>> * support and
express appreciation for digital voluntary work (e.g. by implementing
funding programmes)
>> * public authorities ought to provide access to
publicly funded data from administrative bodies, public institutions
etc. in freely accessible and editable formats
>> * support secure legal
frameworks in this context
>> * support evidence-based approaches to
regulating online platforms (EU digital services Act)
>> 
>> Hope you
might find the policy brief useful and happy about any feedback! 
>>
best regards 
>> Lilli 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Lilli Iliev
>> 
>>
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>> project manager public policy 
>> 
>>
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[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Politikbrief_3_Sommer_2020_Wikimedia_Deutschland_e._V.pdf
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Policy_Brief_-_COVID-19_-_How_Wikipedia_helps_us_through_uncertain_times.pdf
[3]
https://mobile.twitter.com/lilliiliev
[4]
https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/
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