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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