We talked Dec 29 about a Commons-focused event for Wikimedia Day
(January 15), and I emailed Peaceray about the work I've been doing
there that I'd love to have more people involved with, but if any
announcement has gone out, I haven't seen it. On
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day it says "Seattle"
but has no further details. This is only 9 days away.
**Do we have a time & location? *Did something go out that I missed? Is
something posted that I can't find?
*
Here is what I passed on to Peaceray; sorry about the referring to
myself in the third person, I was expecting he would post this
somewhere, so I worded it that way. Also, I now have done a bunch of the
panoramas referred to below:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmabel/Archival#Archival_panoramas.
Currently, Wikimedia Commons has a lot of older photos by Asahel
Curtis and (intersecting that) a lot of older photos of Seattle that
need more curation: creation and addition of categories, addition of
ImageNotes where useful, linking other versions of the same photo,
enhancing the descriptions (e.g.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E_F_Blaine_residence,_40th_Ave_E_and_E_John_St,_Seattle_(CURTIS_961).jpeg
is a 1910 photo of the house now best known as where Kurt Cobain
lived at the end of his life, and where he killed himself), and in
some cases identifying and correcting errors (Jmabel has caught out
a lot of wrong dates, misidentified buildings, etc.).
Many of these photos are directly in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Seattle or
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alaska-Yukon-Pacific_Exposition
and really belong in subcategories; others are in the maintenance
categories
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Alaska-Yukon-Pacific_Exposition_Collection_to_check
or
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Asahel_Curtis_Photo_Company_Photographs_Collection_to_check.
There are probably many other images needing similar work, but these
are a few obvious places to look. Also, in a few cases, Curtis or
someone else in that era shot images that constitute a panorama, but
no one has ever "stitched" and uploaded the panorama.
Typical examples of this work are:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:4th_St,_south_from_Spring_St,_Seattle,_about_1874_(CURTIS_133).jpeg&diff=332522330&oldid=324068860
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1st_Ave_from_Columbia_St_looking_south,_Seattle,_ca_1903_(CURTIS_2060).jpeg&diff=320040602&oldid=319389482
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_Gorge_Tickler_amusement_ride,_Pay_Streak,_Alaska_Yukon_Pacific_Exposition,_Seattle,_Washington,_1909_(AYP_530).jpeg&diff=327064080&oldid=326342143
JM
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