Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well.
When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan falls on a Friday and the previous Monday is a bank holiday, does Tuesday 29th make sense?
Also coincides with a WMUK board meeting, so if anything needs approving at that level (although I'm not sure it needs to) we can do that as well.
I guess we should add some bits at the end:
- explaining who WMUK
- link into Britain Loves Wikipedia?
Headline? Wikipedia looks forward to Public Domain Day?
----- "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org>
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Monday, 21 December, 2009 17:12:14 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :
>
> > Draft, then.
>
>
> Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas
> movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well
> worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity
> to push his works. Send to the more literary publications?
I took Charles' draft, put it on the wiki, and did a slight rewrite.
David's suggestion is an excellent point to add to a detail I inserted -
build the membership.
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Public_domain_day
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