Everybody, Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seattle-wikipedia-day-curating-images-from-asahel-curtis-seattle-tickets-54611562654 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/383235655566581/
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:26 AM Raymond Leonard < [email protected]> wrote: > 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
