On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:31 +0000, Charles Matthews wrote: > David Gerard wrote: > > 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > > > > > >> Draft, then. > >> > > > > > > Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas > > movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well > > worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity > > to push his works. Send to the more literary publications? > > > > > Well, if you wanted Ford Madox Ford in, you'd mention "The Fifth Queen", > on the grounds that many more people could tell you who Henry VIII's > fifth queen was than are interested in the "unreliable narrator". > > I see Brian has started [[Press releases/Public domain day]] on the WMUK > wiki. So we can get into detail there. Yes, this might be an upmarket > topic: it would be easy to email the London Review of Books, New > Statesman, The Spectator. and I'll volunteer to do that once we're good > to go. I wasn't so sure at first glance how to email the right person at > The Economist, but well worth the effort (huge circulation). The > Guardian seems to be shuffling things around and online.
There is, as you point out, a great opportunity to put WMUK before a highbrow audience. Yes, Wikibooks should be alerted to, and invited to contribute to, any release on this. However, the idea of audiobooks, or even single poems from Yeats, was what caught my eye. I have a sneaking suspicion there's one or two UK celebs could be persuaded to records stuff for Commons; getting a "featured audio" on Wikipedia would stroke their egos. Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone? -- Brian McNeil <[email protected]> Wikinewsie.org
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