FYI - one of our Swiss/German members, Manuel Schneider, posted this info today on the EURALO list. I dare to forward this to the At-Large community. Best, Wolf ______ Manuel Schneider wrote Tue, 24 May 2011 16:26:

Dear all,

a bit off-topic but I was assured that I may post this here:

Our german friends at Wikimedia Deutschland, the national support organisation between the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, has started a petition to convince the german government to nominate Wikipedia as world heritage site at the UNESCO.

So may I ask you - any EURALO members or interested ALSes - to sign up at this petition:

http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page

Of course that I as the contact person of Wikimedia CH, the swiss Wikimedia chapter, am in favour of that petition, nonetheless of the arguable chance to actually get selected. Even the discussions and arguments that would follow the nomination are (in my personal opinion) worth to start this process. Wikipedia would be the first digital cultur phenomenon that has been discussed at UNESCO. The vision to make knowledge available for every human being in the world has driven a massive movement in the last 10 years - also outside Wikipedia itself.

Read here an article about this idea the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/technology/23wikipedia.html?_r=2&hpw=&page...

Thanks a lot,

Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider

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