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@gmail.com> wrote:
Pharos,
We added the time & location to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia_Day_2019_%E...
Peaceray
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 6:01 PM Pharos pharosofalexandria@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@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 Seattlethat
need more curation: creation and addition of categories, additionof
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 categorieshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Alaska-Yukon-Pac...
orhttps://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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