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@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_and... 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 orhttps://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-Pac... or
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Asahel_Curtis_Ph... . 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_Spri... * https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1st_Ave_from_Columbia_S... * https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_Gorge_Tickler_amu...
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