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 <[email protected]> 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_E_John_St,_Seattle_(CURTIS_961).jpeg > 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-Pacific_Exposition_Collection_to_check > or > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Asahel_Curtis_Photo_Company_Photographs_Collection_to_check > . > 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_Spring_St,_Seattle,_about_1874_(CURTIS_133).jpeg&diff=332522330&oldid=324068860 > * > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1st_Ave_from_Columbia_St_looking_south,_Seattle,_ca_1903_(CURTIS_2060).jpeg&diff=320040602&oldid=319389482 > * > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fairy_Gorge_Tickler_amusement_ride,_Pay_Streak,_Alaska_Yukon_Pacific_Exposition,_Seattle,_Washington,_1909_(AYP_530).jpeg&diff=327064080&oldid=326342143 > > JM > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
