Yes, the article seems mainly historical and legal, and that's not
really manuscript curator country. Plus the BL only has ?2 of the many
13th-century copies, though I think there are 4 of the "first edition"
of 1215. One could do a different article on one or more individual MS,
though they would be be a tad dry I think. No doubt the BL publishes
plenty of sources, & a curator is likely to refer people to those first
off.
John
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:11:41 +0000 From: Jonathan Cardy
<jonathan.cardy(a)wikimedia.org.uk> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list
<wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Magna
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Dear Rod, We did indeed have a
resident at the British Library, and some ongoing discussions and events
with them, including an event last Friday. At the moment we are focussed
on some large image releases and a major tagging exercise to identify
old maps which will then be loaded on Commons.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection/map_tag_campaign>
But it would be worth thinking of further projects, though at least for
this month I'd like to focus what we are doing with BL on certain mass
uploads. Do people think that Magna Carta would be a good subject for a
Wiki wednesday session - bringing few editors together on a Wednesday
evening in our office in London? Regards
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection/map_tag_campaign>
Jonathan Cardy GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser
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Press Enter to send your message. 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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