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 < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
