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 <joyagyep...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, < > dr.manavpreetk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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: >> >>> 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: >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> *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 >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > > _______________________________________________ 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