On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:29 +0000, geni wrote: > 2009/12/21 Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>: > > 2009/12/21 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: > >> January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works > >> of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the > >> only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: > >> > >> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 > >> > >> The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who > >> created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological > >> artifacts. I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if > >> it was something a press release could be built around? > > > > Sigmund Freud and W. B. Yeats are the two particularly influential > > authors this year, I believe - neither UK, but both life+70 > > jurisdictions. > > > > Arthur Rackham, Havelock Ellis and Ford Madox Ford are both > > interesting, though neither is particularly well-known now. > > > > I've been putting together a list at: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1939_deaths > > The ones with stars are the ones I think are most likely to be of > interest to us.
I didn't see any asterisked authors. That, I think, would be a good target; adding more content to Wikibooks. Secondary to that, if WMUK has any voice talent, or can entice notable figures to do readings, spoken Wikibooks would be a good place to target stuff. Who could read Carter's Journals? And the various other pieces now available? Is Yeats one that UK celebs could be convinced to donate spoken versions of to the Commons? -- Brian McNeil <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org> Wikinewsie.org
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