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.zana@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, <jmh649@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 <
> > > andy@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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> >
> > --
> > James Heilman
> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
> > _______________________________________________
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Jorge Vargas
Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
jvargas@wikimedia.org
+1 415.310.5922
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.zana@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, <jmh649@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 <
> > > andy@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
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> >
> >
> > --
> > James Heilman
> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
> > _______________________________________________
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Jorge Vargas
Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
jvargas@wikimedia.org
+1 415.310.5922