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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