Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Women in the public domain

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What

The Berne Convention establishes that authors enter the public domain on the following the next January 1st after a certain amount of years (normally 50 to 70) of their death. Activists supporting free access to knowledge and culture have created the "public domain day" as a way to celebrate the fact that different authors enter the public domain on a single date.

The proposal for this activity is to help create and improve articles of the women that are entering in the public domain this year, and also encourage other activities that can take place now with their works: for example, digitize and upload them to Commons, transcribe them in Wikisource, create new Wikidata items for women creators, create new Wikidata items for their works, among other activities.

When

The actual day in which women enter the public domain is on January 1st, but people can edit throughout January.

How

We have created a set of lists that you can use to know which women are entering in the public domain this year. As a way to avoid complexity, we created the lists based on +70 post-mortem calculation. These dates might differ in your country (for example, if you are in Mexico is +100 post-mortem, or if you are in Uruguay or Canada is +50 post-mortem). If you want to create a specific list for your country, you're more than welcome to!

We have created the lists with the main occupation and all the sub occupations of "creator".

Lists of women in the public domain 2020

• Women creators in Asia entering the public domain 2020 (WD)
• Women creators in North America entering the public domain 2020 (WD)
• Women creators in Latin America entering the public domain 2020 (WD)
• Women creators in Europe entering the public domain 2020 (WD)
• Women by date of death as 1949 (WD)

Activities

• Create, improve or translate articles about the women entering into the public domain this year.
• Create new Wikidata items for their works.
• Create new Wikidata items for women creators.
• Digitize their works and upload them to Commons.
• Help convince your local archive, library or museum to digitize & upload their works into Commons!
• Transcribe their works in Wikisource.

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