The press release has now gone out: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/01/mary-rose-trust-releases- photographs-onto-wikipedia/
It's been sent to the nationals, the local paper (http:// www.portsmouth.co.uk) and a few museum contacts. Let's see who picks it up... Mike On 3 Jan 2010, at 15:45, Michael Peel wrote: > 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 resolution images, previously unpublished, relating to the salvaged 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" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:24 PM >> To: <[email protected]>; <wikimediauk- >> [email protected]> >> Cc: "Steve Virgin" <[email protected]> >> 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 > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
