2009/12/21 Brian McNeil <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:29 +0000, geni wrote: >> 2009/12/21 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: >> > 2009/12/21 geni <[email protected]>: >> >> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works >> >> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the >> >> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: >> >> >> >> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 >> >> >> >> The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who >> >> created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological >> >> artifacts. I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if >> >> it was something a press release could be built around? >> > >> > Sigmund Freud and W. B. Yeats are the two particularly influential >> > authors this year, I believe - neither UK, but both life+70 >> > jurisdictions. >> > >> > Arthur Rackham, Havelock Ellis and Ford Madox Ford are both >> > interesting, though neither is particularly well-known now. >> > >> >> I've been putting together a list at: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1939_deaths >> >> The ones with stars are the ones I think are most likely to be of >> interest to us. > > I didn't see any asterisked authors. That, I think, would be a good > target; adding more content to Wikibooks. Secondary to that, if WMUK has > any voice talent, or can entice notable figures to do readings, spoken > Wikibooks would be a good place to target stuff. Who could read Carter's > Journals? And the various other pieces now available? Is Yeats one that > UK celebs could be convinced to donate spoken versions of to the > Commons? >
Would more be a wikisource thing. There is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Giberne . -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
