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''By John Cummings, Wikimedia volunteer''
[[File:Palace of Westminster.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Palace of Westminster, home of Parliament]]


I have been working with the Sector for External Relations and Public Information unit at The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to make images from their archive available on [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia Commons], the media site for all Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia.
''This post was written by Stevie Benton, Head of External Relations''


Wikipedia is the most used educational resource in the world and the Wikimedia projects receive over [https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ 21 billion page views per month]. This includes users from an amazing project called [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero Wikipedia Zero] which provides over 400 million people in 35 countries completely free access with no data charges to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects on their mobile phones.
This morning I attended the launch of Open Up! – Report of the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy. Having been [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_of_digital_democracy_in_the_UK_(Archive_1) involved in the work of the Commission] I was very interested to hear its recommendations.
[http://www.digitaldemocracy.parliament.uk/documents/Open-Up-Digital-Democracy-Report.pdf The report is a substantial document (PDF)] which I need to read in more detail, but there are five key targets and recommendations highlighted in the summary (P3 of the report). Some of these appear to be significant wins for the open knowledge movement. These are quoted below:


UNESCO shares many goals with the Wikimedia movement, together we can make available an amazing amount of the world's significant cultural and educational material available to everyone on the planet - global content for a global audience.
*By 2020, the House of Commons should ensure that everyone can understand what it does
*By 2020, Parliament should be fully interactive and digital
*The 2015 newly elected House of Commons should create immediately a new forum for public participation in the debating function of the House of Commons
*By 2020 secure online voting should be an option for all voters
*By 2016 all published information and broadcast footage produced by Parliament should be freely available online in formats suitable for re-use. Hansard should be available as open data by the end of 2015.


<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/01/unesco/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Read the full post here, which includes a selection of stunning images from the collection...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
It is the final recommendation that is of most interest here, and I’ll address this first. I very much welcome this step to make more of Parliament’s information freely available, especially as this is already paid for from the public purse, although the choice of open license is crucial to the impact this move will have. I encourage Parliament to use the most open license possible. For example, the use of the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Open Government Licence] would allow for footage of parliamentary debates to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and inserted into appropriate Wikipedia articles. I find this quite exciting and it would enhance Wikipedia as a learning and teaching tool for those interested in Parliament.
 
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