Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan falls on a Friday and the previous Monday is a bank holiday, does Tuesday 29th make sense? Also coincides with a WMUK board meeting, so if anything needs approving at that level (although I'm not sure it needs to) we can do that as well. I guess we should add some bits at the end: - explaining who WMUK - link into Britain Loves Wikipedia? Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day? ----- "Brian McNeil" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "Brian McNeil" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 17:12:14 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day > > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +0000, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/12/21 Charles > Matthews : > > > 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? I took Charles' draft, put it on the wiki, and did a slight > rewrite. David's suggestion is an excellent point to add to a detail I > inserted - build the membership. > http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Public_domain_day -- Brian McNeil > Wikinewsie.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: > http://uk.wikimedia.org
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