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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