Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 14:32, Jorge Vargas wrote: > we are excited to announce a new collaboration between the Wikimedia > Foundation and the World Health Organization (WHO). This is great news, albeit long overdue on the WHO's part. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-23 Thread Rajeeb
Thanks for this update Jorge. Definitely such an initiative will further strengthen free and open access movement globally. Namaste, Rajeeb. On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 15:28, Gabriel Thullen wrote: > Great work to you all and great news from the WHO. I live and work in > Geneva not far from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-23 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Great work to you all and great news from the WHO. I live and work in Geneva not far from the WHO HQ, and am quite willing to help out in any way I can. Best regards Gabe On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:44 AM Joy Agyepong wrote: > Super excited about this collaboration the movement is indeed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-23 Thread Joy Agyepong
Super excited about this collaboration the movement is indeed expanding! Congratulations to all who were involved. Cheers. On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, 19:40 Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, wrote: > This is amazing. This gives motivation to so many who have been working > tirelessly to provide Covid information

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-22 Thread Dr. Manavpreet Kaur
This is amazing. This gives motivation to so many who have been working tirelessly to provide Covid information on Wikipedia projects. Thank you and Congratulations to all who made it possible. Regards, Manav On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:36 PM Frederick Noronha < fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-22 Thread Frederick Noronha
Is it possible to convince more international non-profits and government organisations (especially taxpayer-funded research organisations) that it would be in their interest as well to share the findings under some Creative Commons licenses? FN SEE:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-22 Thread Samuel Klein
*fantastic*. Thanks all for this, and thanks Jorge for the update. On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:32 AM Jorge Vargas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Following up on my earlier thread about this, we are excited to announce a > new collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the World Health >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-22 Thread James Heilman
An amazing partnership. Great to see the work of so many volunteers over so many years resulting in a huge step forwards :-) And thank you to the WHO for joining the free and open access medical community. J On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:00 AM Subhashish wrote: > Thanks for sharing this, Jorge.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-22 Thread Subhashish
Thanks for sharing this, Jorge. This is a news that is positive but not the scary kind! WHO resources have been already used widely across communities and have helped create localized resources. This initiative will strengthen many Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects across the movement. Subhashish

[Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-22 Thread Jorge Vargas
Hi everyone, Following up on my earlier thread about this, we are excited to announce a new collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the World Health Organization (WHO). The collaboration will initially focus on releasing WHO content such as public-health related infographics, videos,