*fantastic*. Thanks all for this, and thanks Jorge for the update. On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:32 AM Jorge Vargas <jvar...@wikimedia.org> 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 > Organization (WHO). The collaboration will initially focus on releasing WHO > content such as public-health related infographics, videos, and other > COVID-19 resources under a free license (CC BY SA 3.0) to be shared on > Wikimedia Commons. We are hopeful that these resources will be useful for > volunteers writing about COVID-19 across language wikis and further expand > access to knowledge about the pandemic to people around the world. > > You can read more about the collaboration announcement in the press > release we published earlier today [1], and see the first batch of content > uploads from WHO on Wikimedia Commons [2]. If you want to help share the > collaboration news on social media, please retweet the Foundation’s account > [3] or share your own post using this toolkit [4]. > > I want to give a major thank you and shout out to the volunteers > (including Doc James, Dr. Netha Hussain, John Cummings, and many others) > who have been moving these conversations with WHO forward for years, as > well as to the many Wikimedians providing accurate and relevant coverage of > COVID-19 on the projects that this collaboration hopes to support. We are > so excited to finally reach this milestone with WHO. > > In the coming months, Alex Stinson, from our Community Programs team, will > be working with volunteers to continue sharing details of the WHO content > available on Commons and collaborating with volunteers to understand how > WHO resources might help address information needs and gaps about COVID-19 > on the projects. We need your help identifying the most useful content. > Please join us on the project page on Commons to request WHO materials, and > ask questions or give feedback on the project [5]. > > We are excited to celebrate this important achievement in making more > knowledge about COVID-19 freely available to everyone in such a critical > time in the world. Thank you to all who made this possible! > > Feel free to reach out on this thread or to Alex and I directly in case > you have further questions about this collaboration. > > Jorge Vargas > Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships > > [1] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/ > > [2] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID-19_Disinformation_Infographics > > [3] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1319263874303037442 > > [4] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn4kvA/edit?usp=sharing > > [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska <777.z...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The same video translated on Macedonian language is on national television >> in my country several days already. >> Regards, >> Zana >> >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, 19:30 James Heilman, <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) >> under >> > open licenses since since Feb 2020. >> > >> > I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their >> > collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc. >> > >> > They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed >> too >> > keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-( >> > >> > James >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l < >> > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: >> > >> > > Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious >> but >> > > we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of >> Washington DC >> > > and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their >> central >> > > office quickly in Geneva if necessary. >> > > Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but >> in >> > > general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some >> > time. >> > > >> > > In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end, >> > > probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but >> the >> > > pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, >> IMHO, >> > > when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, >> started >> > > to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after >> China, >> > > Iran and South Korea). >> > > >> > > They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they >> > > finally reach out. >> > > >> > > Regards. >> > > Alessandro >> > > >> > > Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett < >> > > a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto: >> > > >> > > WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"): >> > > >> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw >> > > >> > > Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other >> > > affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence >> > > such material, as I have done, here: >> > > >> > > https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777 >> > > >> > > [much of their published material is under NC restrictions - >> > > https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ] >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Andy Mabbett >> > > @pigsonthewing >> > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> , >> > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> , >> > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > James Heilman >> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Jorge Vargas > Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships > Wikimedia Foundation > jvar...@wikimedia.org > +1 415.310.5922 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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