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Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:55 pm**

Artwork by transcribers

Caro wrote:Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:40 pm

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

Hanibal94 wrote:Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:20 pm 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

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:12 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:56 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:20 pm

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

Ship history editors receiving new vessels to work on.

Caro wrote:Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:56 pm Very good, Hanibal.

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

Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:58 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:25 am Time for some more!

A perfectly ordinary Patterson logbook.

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

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

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 5:59 pm**

AvastMH wrote:Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:20 am How else could I reply?

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:24 pm I call that one: OW'er browsing the "Oldweather mondegreens" topic.

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:00 pm**

Kathy wrote:Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:22 pm
When you have completed your voyage on your ship....

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:01 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat Apr 30, 2016 7:23 pm

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

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:02 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Tue May 03, 2016 6:11 pm Time for some more!

Browsing the forum in the morning.

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

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

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:03 pm**

Randi wrote:Thu May 05, 2016 7:02 pm

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2020 6:05 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Thu May 05, 2016 7:40 pm More paintings!

Dockside Cafe during the day.

Dockside Cafe at night.

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

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:51 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Fri May 06, 2016 4:18 pm Now, here's one I have gone through many times:

Transcriber after doing 1000 WR in one day.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:51 pm**

AvastMH wrote:Sat May 07, 2016 6:54 pm

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

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:52 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote: More paintings!

Looking for readable bits of a poorly handwritten log.

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

Philip Brohan explains the science behind the project.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:55 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Mon May 16, 2016 11:10 am Some more art:

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

A bunch of printed logbooks.

A bunch of handwritten logbooks.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:55 pm**

propriome wrote:Mon May 16, 2016 3:10 pm

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

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:56 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Fri May 20, 2016 2:10 pm One that's happening right now:

When the interface is down and you want it back.

Randi wrote:Fri May 20, 2016 6:24 pm 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

Hanibal94 wrote:Mon May 23, 2016 4:05 pm Hooray! It's been fixed!

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

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:59 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:

Working on the very last logbook of a vessel.

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

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:59 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:

The adoration of AutoHotKey.

History editor explains the sad fate of the USS Jeannette.

Addicted transcriber who could really use a break.

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:01 pm**

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

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

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

Posted: **Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:03 pm**

Hanibal94 wrote:Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:26 am 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.

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

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

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