I will work on that today,
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:37 AM Joe Mabel <jmabel(a)speakeasy.net> 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 <
raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Pharos,
>
> We added the time & location to
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia_Day_2019_%…
>
> Peaceray
>
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 6:01 PM Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
> 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 <jmabel(a)speakeasy.net> 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_an…
>>> 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-Pa…
>>> or
>>>
>>>
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Asahel_Curtis_P…
>>> .
>>> 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_Spr…
>>> *
>>>
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1st_Ave_from_Columbia_…
>>> *
>>>
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_Gorge_Tickler_am…
> JM
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