Pharos, We added the time & location to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia_Day_2019_%E2%80%94_curating_images_from_Asahel_Curtis_and_older_Seattle_photos
Peaceray On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 6:01 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
