Dockside Gallery

[Randi]

Artwork by transcribers

Yes, you can make pictures out of anything. This was a page from the log of HMS Argonaut. ;D

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Artwork selected and captioned by transcribers

Here's something fun I thought up: Take a classic work of art, and give it a humorous OW-related caption.



Transcriber checks the OW forum guidelines to see whether celestial location measurements should be transcribed as DR or Observed.

Link to archive of this discussion from the old forum

[Caro]

Here is a selection of my favourite creations from the old forum.
These and others are kept here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BR3hUwQsLhZRACA36



















This is my No 1 favourite: Trawler Returno, sidekick of HMS Lord Minto, WWI minesweepers.

[Hanibal94]

The granting of global moderator status to an OW'er.

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Ship history editors receiving new vessels to work on.

Very good, Hanibal.

The granting of global moderator status to an OW'er, part 2:



Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice

[Hanibal94]

Time for some more!



A perfectly ordinary Patterson logbook.

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Two high-power transcribers and a history expert team up to quickly eliminate a single vessel.

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Transcriber accidentally closes browser while working on the very last WR of a 24 WR page.

[Hanibal94]

How else could I reply?

I call that one: OW'er browsing the "Oldweather mondegreens" topic.

[Hanibal94]

When you have completed your voyage on your ship....

[Hanibal94]

History editor researching ultra-local place names in 1920s China.

[Hanibal94]

Time for some more!



Browsing the forum in the morning.

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The amount of time it will take to finish Old Weather for good.

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Moderator presents the PTB's answer to a difficult question.

[Hanibal94]

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

[Hanibal94]

More paintings!




Dockside Cafe during the day.

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Dockside Cafe at night.

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OW'er seeks forgiveness after getting into trouble with the moderators.

[Hanibal94]

Now, here's one I have gone through many times:



Transcriber after doing 1000 WR in one day.

[Hanibal94]

An action party turns the Ship's Galley messages into a working lunch for all transcribers.

[Hanibal94]

More paintings!



Looking for readable bits of a poorly handwritten log.

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When you have to share a transcribing stream with someone else.

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Philip Brohan explains the science behind the project.

[Hanibal94]

Some more art:



The community trying to decipher a very difficult bit of handwriting.

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A bunch of printed logbooks.

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A bunch of handwritten logbooks.

[Hanibal94]

Senior Geographical Help Board user teaching a newbie how to find where his OW ship is actually cruising.
Oil Painting on Canvas

[Hanibal94]

One that's happening right now:



When the interface is down and you want it back.

Still waiting...


By Paul Cezanne - http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=6371, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7851236

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Hooray! It's been fixed!



Zooniverse developer informs OW community that the transcribing interface is back online.

[Hanibal94]

Working on the very last logbook of a vessel.

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Celebrating the recent completion of the Vicksburg.

(Me, leelaht, Silvia, Stuart, Kathy and Bob are all in this one - Have fun guessing who's who!) ;D

[Hanibal94]

The adoration of AutoHotKey.

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History editor explains the sad fate of the USS Jeannette.

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Addicted transcriber who could really use a break.

[Hanibal94]

Working on multiple vessels at once (As opposed to working on a single vessel until it's done).

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After guiding them through the forum and their first page, moderator declares newbie is ready to transcribe.

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Transcriber realizes he forgot the last WR just as he clicks "I've finished with this page".

[Hanibal94]

Thanks for the positive comments on all these jokes, people - it makes me happy to see you enjoying them so much.
So - here are some more!



What you feel like on your very first day on OW.

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Lieutenant Scrawl (right) presents his latest logbook to an OWer (left).

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The three types of logbooks, from left to right: smooth log, smooth log with faded ink, rough log.