[Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011

2011-05-11 Thread Fae
Hi, Registration for this collaboration event at the British Library has opened today and has yet to be promoted to the general public. Sign up early if you would like to take advantage of full access to the English and Drama unique collections (some of the archives suggested have yet to be offici

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011

2011-05-11 Thread Isabell Long
Hi, This sounds very interesting! On 10 May 2011 17:03, Fae wrote: > The event runs from 10am-5pm on Saturday 4th June and registration > will be limited to a maximum of 30. The event has been organized in > partnership with Wikimedia UK as part of our UK GLAM initiative. Your > comments for imp

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011

2011-05-11 Thread Andrew Gray
On 10 May 2011 17:03, Fae wrote: > Registration for this collaboration event at the British Library has > opened today and has yet to be promoted to the general public. Sign up > early if you would like to take advantage of full access to the > English and Drama unique collections (some of the ar

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011

2011-05-11 Thread Alex Stinson
I am really glad to hear about the collaboration, the content on literature on Wikipedia is decidedly poor. Might I suggest that the articles that we work on in the third group, not be author pages, but rather individual works. Some of the most important literary works in the English language are c

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011

2011-05-11 Thread Fae
I would love to see a number of generalist Wikipedians sign up for this event. An experienced contributor could get a lot from 15 minutes sitting with a curator talking through a key Wikipedia article on their laptop screen after seeing the original material. I have suggested to the curators that t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Library English and Drama event for Wikip/medians // Saturday 4 June 2011

2011-05-11 Thread Brian McNeil
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 19:23 +0100, Fae wrote: > Alex, I agree with your point about individual works and I would > extend that to popular film articles related to the lives and works of > these authors as well as associated artworks and other cultural > spin-offs. The impact of Oscar Wilde or H.