And then there's Tim Berners-Lee's call for a Magna Carta of internet
rights, globally. He spoke of this at the Web We Want event
<https://webwewant.org/>, which is another way of saying the same thing. It
could all tie in quite nicely.
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On 5 November 2014 11:04, Rod Ward <rodward(a)plus.net> wrote:
Hi all,
An article in this weeks observer (see
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-a…
) 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
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