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@gmail.com> wrote:
Everybody,
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seattle-wikipedia-day-curating-images-from-asah... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/383235655566581/
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:26 AM Raymond Leonard < raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
I will work on that today,
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:37 AM Joe Mabel jmabel@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@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
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 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-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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