Hi Steve, Thanks for this; I've integrated some of these changes into the release. I quite like Charles's rearrangement of the release from this morning, so I haven't changed the arrangement much - except for splitting up the first paragraph into two so that they become a bit more punchy.
One point to note: content donations are different from "loves" events - the former just involves the public online, whilst the latter involves them offline in museums. The Bundesarchiv etc. were content donations, not "loves" events. I think we're just about ready to send this out - if everyone's happy with it? Mike On 3 Jan 2010, at 12:14, Steve Virgin wrote: > > > Assuming the formatting stays in place through email (big 'if') > here is my attempt to contribute to improving the press release > > > > > My version: > > The Portsmouth-based Mary Rose Trust, has donated fifty-seven high > resolution images, previously unpublished, relating to the salvaged > sixteenth century warship onto Wikipedia. This kind donation > complements a substantial reworking of the Wikipedia article about > the sixteenth-century warship the Mary Rose, carried out by > Wikimedia volunteer Peter Isotalo from Sweden. > Two photographs are of the final stages of the salvage operation on > 11 October 1982; the first time the Mary Rose had been above water > since it sank on 19 July 1545. The remainder show sixteenth-century > artefacts, including weapons, tools and personal items, recovered > from the Mary Rose during its salvage: > > "Making content available on Wikimedia increases the visibility > of our cultural heritage," Mike Peel, Chair of Wikimedia UK, says. > "These images are now available to be seen in perpetuity, by the > millions of people around the world that regularly read and edit > Wikipedia and its sister projects." > > The revised article on the Mary Rose will be prominently linked on > the 'Did you know..' section, which is found on the home page of > Wikipedia, on 4 January; this page routinely receives over four > million visits each day. In addition, it is on course to become a > "Featured Article", a best on Wikipedia example, and, thus, it will > also be eligible to be the main featured article on Wikipedia's > front page. > > Forthcoming event: > > Wikimedia UK is finishing off plans for Britain Loves Wikipedia > that will run during the whole of February. It is a free > photography contest to be held in participating museums across the > UK, attracting volunteer involvement, bringing more people to the > museums and getting them involved in describing and representing > the cultural heritage content. As ever, images from the series of > events will be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles. > > Previous events of this nature have been run all over the world in > partnership with Wikimedia: the Bundesarchiv and Deutsche Fotothek > in Germany; the Tropenmuseum in The Netherlands; Regionarkivet in > Sweden and the Queensland Museum, Australia. > > Wikimedia UK proactively seeks to encourage more cultural > organisations to make their images, audio recordings or videos > freely available to the public through its Wikimedia Commons project. > > > EDITORS' NOTES > > About the Mary Rose: > The Mary Rose, once the pride of King Henry VIII's navy, was raised > by the the Mary Rose Trust from the bottom of the Solent just off > Portsmouth in 1982, 437 years after it accidentally foundered while > engaging a French fleet. The project of salvaging the ship was a > major undertaking and proved to be a milestone within the field of > maritime archaeology. When the Mary Rose sunk, the ship and its > contents were sealed off by layers of clay and sediment thereby > becoming a time capsule of sixteenth-century Tudor England. The > thousands of artefacts found when the ship was excavated and raised > have provided important clues to the life of the men of all classes > that served on her during the 1540s, about shipbuilding, naval > warfare and countless other fields. > > About Wikimedia Commons: > Wikimedia Commons is a free image and media file repository, and is > a sister project to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It was > started on 7 September 2004, and is operated by the Wikimedia > Foundation. It currently contains over 5.5 million freely licensed > images and media files. > > About Wikimedia UK: > Wikimedia UK is an independent organisation that supports free and > open knowledge throughout the United Kingdom, including promoting > and supporting the projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. > > About the Wikimedia Foundation: > The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is the US-based non-profit > organisation that operates some of the largest collaboratively- > edited reference projects in the world. These include Wikipedia, > one of the world's ten most-visited websites, and Wikimedia Commons. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Michael Peel" <em...@mikepeel.net> > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:24 PM > To: <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>; <wikimediauk- > l...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: "Steve Virgin" <st...@mediafocusuk.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Telegraph runs story ... > >> >> On 2 Jan 2010, at 20:27, Charles Matthews wrote: >> >>> In the end, a story appeared today: >>> >>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6916596/WB-Yeats- >>> and-Sigmund-Freud-works-posted-on-Wikipedia-as-copyright- >>> expires.html >>> >>> >>> Well done indeed to Mike and Andrew in particular for pushing on >>> past >>> all the obstacles. >> >> Well done Charles and Brian for writing the article, and also >> pushing past your share of obstacles. :-) >> >> I think I've found another addiction thanks to this - I spent most >> of today and yesterday making a book of Yeats available on >> Wikisource... If you haven't already tried proofreading a book on >> Wikisource, then I would thoroughly recommend it. >> >> The next press release, due to go out tomorrow evening, will be >> about a donation of images from the Mary Rose Trust: >> >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Mary_Rose_Trust_donation >> >> Please help! If this goes down well in the media, then it will be >> a great precedent for getting more organizations to make their >> content available by Wikimedia websites. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
