Hi all, We also have a Commons page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Public_Domain_Day
All images restored are posted here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Public_Domain_Day/2019 Greetings, Romaine Op do 10 jan. 2019 om 04:43 schreef Kerry Raymond <[email protected]>: > Actually for newbies and 1lib1ref, I don’t usually do biographies but save > them for those with a little more experience. For newbies, I use lists. > Every public library in Queensland , Australia, is mentioned in the > Wikipedia article for the applicable town, suburb or rural area, even down > to mobile library service points. If you believe public libraries are > important civic amenities (and I presume I’m preaching to the choir here), > get their existence onto Wikipedia. All it takes is one or two sentences. > E.g. for the town of Miriam Vale ... > > The Miriam Vale Library is at 41 Blomfield Street; it is operated by the > Gladstone > Regional Council > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone_Regional_Council>.[15] > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Vale#cite_note-15> > > If we knew when it opened, we added that too. Or some other interesting > fact about it (not opening hours). For example for the town of Mackinney > > The McKinlay Shire Council operates a public library at Middleton Street; > it is claimed to be Queensland's smallest public library.[9] > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinlay,_Queensland#cite_note-9>[10] > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinlay,_Queensland#cite_note-10>. > (The article has photos if you want to see just how small it is) > > Schools are another great list of topic. Librarians generally think > schools matter too. What you can say depends on what easily accessible data > you have. But all of our governments schools have a link from the home page > of their website to their last annual report which tells you what years of > schooling are offered, number of enrolled kids, and number of teachers, > which is all good factual material for Wikipedia. > > If you wanting to celebrate new public domain manual, look for list-of > resources like almanacs and tourist guides, which are full of information > about tiny towns like the name of their mayor or the number of hotels and > beds therein and the price of a week’s stay with full board, or other > factoids. Such books were the Wikipedia of their times, and provide > interesting tidbits for the history section of any town article in > Wikipedia today. > > Kerry > > > > Sent from my iPad > > On 4 Jan 2019, at 5:49 pm, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > > - Nemo - cool! > - Marie - that is fantastic, best of luck. I am sad to learn about the > Canadian copyright issues. But I am very glad to learn about any > initiatives involving Wikipedia editing and library & information science > schools - we need much more of this! > - Kerry - thanks for all the good advice, good for any event. I have run > many editathons, but usually I pick a somewhat looser topic that is easier > to find a variety of articles to work with. Side note: I would like to > challenge our community to host more editing events that *don't* involve > writing biographies - though they are easy to start with, there is so much > more to do! All of your advice about Wikiprojects is good for this. > - Bob - it sounds like we need a jazz project! I was thinking of at the > very least playing 1923 jazz during the event :) > > Any other public domain related events or ideas? PS: here are the books we > digitized in honor of the day: > https://archive.org/details/mitlibrariespublicdomain > > best, > Phoebe > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:08 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The English Wikisource is busy adding books, starting of course from the >> ubiquitous Gibran: >> >> https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Template:New_texts&diff=9024624&oldid=9024435 >> >> Federico >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> > > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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