This exists but still needs details. It would also help a lot for centralnotice if someone could set up a simple Eventbrite page for non-editors to RSVP.ul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia_Day_2019_%E2%80%94_curating_images_from_Asahel_Curtis_and_older_Seattle_photos On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:01 PM Pharos <[email protected]> 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 <[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
