-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh Kubla Khan! Jorge Luis Borges was fond of the palace's story and the poem. Thank you for your hard work.
On 22/06/2010 02:05, Jeffrey Peters wrote: > Dear List, > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition > Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the donation > of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English language: > Wordsworth's *Ode: Intimations of Immortality* and Coleridge's *Kubla Khan*. > Their current pages are almost stub level and contain many errors and > problems. Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a > project that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a > whole: > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan > > The above are works of love, and I dedicated dozens of hours at multiple DC > university libraries compiling research that, as far as I can tell, cannot > be found elsewhere in such a complete and concise form in print or on the > internet. I have provided my time and abilities to produce the page for the > betterment of the WMF and Wikipedia as a whole. I do so because of four > individuals who have inspired me over the last year: Jimbo Wales (for his > dedication to the idea of a free and complete encyclopedia), Samuel Klein > (for his dedication to the projects and valiant effort to ensure high > quality), Cary Bass (for the massive amount of time he puts in ensuring that > volunteers are able to succeed), and Philippe Beaudette (for striving to > make the WMF more academic friendly). > > Previously, I donated the material for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard > but I did not compile one whole page with every aspect but included material > in a piecemeal fashion. This did not work as well as I hoped, so I put in > the additional effort to ensure that the pages can be considered "complete", > though they may need additional minor copyedits to remove any final errors. > > I hope that my donation today will aid Wikipedia's continuing quest to > provide a free and educational encyclopedia, and I hope that the level of > effort and critical eye, to an extent that appears unrivaled in any current > poetry page (even in my previous works), will attract more people to > Wikipedia who shall do the same. > > Sincerely, > Jeffrey Peters > aka Ottava Rima > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMICqBAAoJEHCAuDvx9Z6LAooH/i35RV7GdKN+IByqbbDBwrJt mMrUNqCLfEwn1PWw29ld9d0nyCWsZK/cc+390lguipIdRn1hyNnX8yuhjomv9OOb LnE6ZfpHIf9wUNhgUPHuol0/CHPu/Re6QP1euRm+Qpbtg+Hhhh9j/JNbkb+CyaHK UGyiu/iIVVPeDDxBHo4TcoCfE30t2/2osr5im3ykZVUA7FnWVEH1ORIelPNuBkRz dVjMqISyDqFzt2GSfLrfzj0YPeRlQI9m5aYENdFVS0JipusnKTTPY6VO6RKC7nhu bOs+HA80Xw9qXHrRKMaoTn+PaWFdlQg0OCz+LK4UIJaC2PJWVaJSGz1t87YaFlI= =BFvU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l