PR opportunity? "Wikipedia asks for contributors to bring Magna Carta article [link] up to highest standard [link to FA criteria] ahead of 800 year anniversary. The page currently gets over 150k views per month [link to pageview stats]. Never edited Wikipedia but keen on history? Here's some info to get you started [link to getting started page], and check out the Wikipedia history project [link to Wikiproject History]."
Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Nov 2014, at 11:04, "Rod Ward" <rodw...@plus.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > An article in this weeks observer (see > http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-anniversary > ) points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the > Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV > and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date. I > note this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta ) regularly gets > 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to increase. It was listed > as a Good Article back in the early days but was delisted in 2006 and has > gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the Vital Articles for Society > and Social Sciences. A few of us are trying to get it to at least GA or even > FA standard before the anniversary – any help would be appreciated. > > The specific reason for this email is that I think WikimediaUK had some sort > of relationship (possibly a wikimedian in residence or similar) with the > British Library years ago. For that or other sources does anyone have a > contact within the appropriate department (possibly manuscripts curator or > similar) of the BL who would be willing to help advise on the development of > this important article? > > Rod > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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