Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight can be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain
That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues with US copyright laws.
On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonightcan be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due toissues with US copyright laws.
Thanks. The impact on Commons and Wikisource is typically more noticeable.
Some thoughts.
I was looking around on Wikidata: generating lists of creators of works with death dates in a given year, and associated with a given country, is a natural task for it. From a Wikisource point of view, authors who write in a given language is relevant, and there was a game created a couple of months ago to fill in the corresponding data - seems not to be online right now, though.
My first pass at authors dying in 1945 yielded 103, as opposed to the 72 or so in the enWP page you give. (Those are mostly writing in German, which is probably more to do with attention paid to the "occupation" field than anything else.)
This business was discussed earlier in the year: the old thread at
http://wikimediauk-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/4nyiV2zt/wikidata-training-sessio...
contains contributions from Andrew Gray, in particular a query using subclasses of "author" which is certainly a good idea. But artists are also relevant.
A heavyweight SPARQL query that factored in the various copyright jurisdictions would be a project I'd like to see done, of course. [1] is a bare bones "humans who died in 1945" query, which should bring up about 10,000 hits.
Charles
[1] https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se...)
The "German focus" is no doubt partly down to better metadata in Wikidata, but also ties into something I spotted years ago - proportionally more notable people in dewiki died in 1945 than in enwiki. http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2010/demographics-in-wikipedia/
Making the reasonable assumption that demographic skews in dewiki represent a German bias, it's easy to see why - the entire country was variously in a state of war, occupation, starvation and/or general upheaval that year, so you'd expect a higher mortality rate compared to most other places, even leaving aside the effect of "war deaths" per se.
I haven't rerun this with Wikidata data (where we can use nationality rather than language-of-article) but suspect you'd see a similar thing. Next year (2017, for 1946 deaths) should be somewhat more balanced.
Andrew.
On 31 December 2015 at 11:17, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight can be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain
That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues with US copyright laws.
Thanks. The impact on Commons and Wikisource is typically more noticeable.
Some thoughts.
I was looking around on Wikidata: generating lists of creators of works with death dates in a given year, and associated with a given country, is a natural task for it. From a Wikisource point of view, authors who write in a given language is relevant, and there was a game created a couple of months ago to fill in the corresponding data - seems not to be online right now, though.
My first pass at authors dying in 1945 yielded 103, as opposed to the 72 or so in the enWP page you give. (Those are mostly writing in German, which is probably more to do with attention paid to the "occupation" field than anything else.)
This business was discussed earlier in the year: the old thread at
http://wikimediauk-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/4nyiV2zt/wikidata-training-sessio...
contains contributions from Andrew Gray, in particular a query using subclasses of "author" which is certainly a good idea. But artists are also relevant.
A heavyweight SPARQL query that factored in the various copyright jurisdictions would be a project I'd like to see done, of course. [1] is a bare bones "humans who died in 1945" query, which should bring up about 10,000 hits.
Charles
[1] https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se...)
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