Ditto! We will miss you.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 3:27 PM Joe Mabel <jmabel(a)speakeasy.net> wrote:
Sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon.
JM
On 1/15/2019 2:51 PM, Bruce Englehardt wrote:
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it
down to the city tonight. I
have
a light headache that would definitely be
aggravated by the trip.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:06 PM Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Let me know if the banner is working for you? Just load a random page a
few
> times, like I said it should come up about
1/3 of the time.
>
> Thanks,
> Pharos
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 3:15 PM Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> It should be live now or in a few minutes. The banner will show in
>> Washington and Oregon, and display on ~1/3 of loaded pages.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pharos
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:57 PM Raymond Leonard <
>> raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Everybody,
>>>
>>> Eventbrite:
>>>
>>>
>
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seattle-wikipedia-day-curating-images-from-asa…
>>> Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/383235655566581/
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:26 AM Raymond Leonard <
>>> raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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