I will work on that today, On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:37 AM Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just added an intro. Peaceray, can you please take on the Eventbrite > or other off-wiki page? Thanks. > > JM > > On 1/8/2019 9:17 AM, Pharos wrote: > > Thanks, can you create and Eventbrite or other off-wiki page where > > non-editors can register? Since this would be on a banner visible to a > > broad group. > > > > Also, I think maybe if you could put in more of an introductory > paragraph, > > that could help explain what the Cascadia Wikimedians and Wikipedia Day > are > > to new people. > > > > Best, > > Pharos > > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:13 AM Raymond Leonard < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Pharos, > >> > >> We added the time & location to > >> > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia_Day_2019_%E2%80%94_curating_images_from_Asahel_Curtis_and_older_Seattle_photos > >> > >> Peaceray > >> > >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 6:01 PM Pharos <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> If the Cascadia team can post a time and location (and a meetup page) > >>> quickly, I can promote your event via centralnotice over the next 7 > days > >> in > >>> Washington/Oregon. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Pharos > >>> > >>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:45 PM Joe Mabel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> 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 > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
