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Guidelines for typing a Jurors List

Submitted by David on Sat, 2010-08-21 11:56

The idea of these is to help keep names, addresses, etc consistent across people and years. The single most important thing you can do to help is to follow the spreadsheet's suggestions when you're typing:

Follow the spreadsheet's suggestions

Let's say you're adding a new person to the list, and they work for "Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.". As you can imagine, it's easy to make spelling mistakes, so we end up with several different versions of the name in the spreadsheet - not good.

What's this, & how to help

Submitted by David on Thu, 2010-07-15 11:19

We're taking the old Hong Kong Jurors Lists, typing them out, and moving them online. It's all done by volunteers like you and me, a page at a time.

Please join in and help - it only takes around 30 minutes to finish a page. You can find full instructions here - just look for the first line that says 'Started ...' and click on that.

Thanks for your help!

David

The upgraded Gwulo website is online

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2022-06-20 12:12

To see the new website, please visit https://new.gwulo.com

The bulk of the old features and new improvements are working, but you'll see we're still finding and fixing bugs, and welcome your help to report any problems you discover.

This copy of the old website will continue to be available at https://gwulo.com as a reference, until we're happy that the new site is running smoothly.

Fire fighting before the Fire Brigade

Submitted by patricia on Tue, 2022-05-31 03:39

Just before this site goes to read-only for a few days, I thought I'd alert readers to an article I've written for SCMP Post Mag which is due out this coming Sunday, 5th June, on the scramble to protect Hong Kong from fires during its first three decades.

New on Gwulo: 2022, week 20

Submitted by David on Mon, 2022-05-30 16:00

Gwulo's newsletter takes an extended break

I don't plan to send out any weekly Gwulo newsletters in June, July, or August, while I'm working on the upgraded Gwulo website (details below), and visiting family in the UK.

During that time, the daily Wartime Diaries emails will continue to be sent, so if you'd like to keep hearing from Gwulo you're welcome to subscribe to the 77 years ago series. You'll receive emails from Jun-Aug 1945 that cover the liberation of Hong Kong after the Japanese occupation, so it's an exciting period to follow.

You also have the option to visit the What's new page at any time, and see all the latest posts and photos from contributors.

Otherwise, I'll be back in your mailbox in September. By then I expect the upgrade will be finished, and I can get back to writing about old Hong Kong photos at long last.

 

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

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  • Regular readers will recognise Stephen Davies, as he has helped answer many nautical-themed questions here on Gwulo. His new book was published earlier this month: Transport to Another World: HMS Tamar and the Sinews of Empire
     
  • Readers are looking for any information about:
     
     
  • Upgrade update:
     
    • I've re-run the whole upgrade from scratch, fixing the last few bugs that appeared along the way. The real upgrade is ready to begin!

      Tomorrow, Tuesday 31 May, I'll set the gwulo.com website to be read-only. You'll still be able to view all its pages, but won't be able to add or edit anything.

      After the old server is set to read-only, I'll make a copy of it, run the upgrade again, and then upload the upgraded site to the new server at the hosting company. Once the new server is ready (hopefully before the end of this week), I'll post a message here on Gwulo.com to give you details of how to access it.

      I plan to run this old server and the new upgraded server in parallel for several months. The old server will continue to be a read-only snapshot of the site from 31 May, and the new server is where we'll add new content. Once the new server is running smoothly and all major bugs have been fixed, the old server can be retired.

     

 

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Address on a letter posted to Australia 6th Jan 1949

Submitted by FriarTuck on Wed, 2022-05-25 11:19

Mar On

Bark Loo

Shou Hing

via Hong Kong

New on Gwulo: 2022, week 19

Submitted by David on Mon, 2022-05-23 18:00

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

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  • Graham Heywood's diary of his experiences as a POW in Hong Kong has valuable lessons for us today.
     
  • Readers are looking for any information about:
     
    • Tanka People of Hong Kong
       
    • The story behind this photo. Wayne writes: I'm standing front row - left, but have no idea what I'm doing there. Guessing this is 1954. No idea as to the event, but hoping someone might recognize themselves (or someone they know).
      party.jpg
      party.jpg, by Wayne Carew

     
  • Upgrade update:
     
    • Forums, Jurors Lists, Organisations, and Streets, are all working on the new site. That's a major milestone, as now all the main functionality of the current site is available on the upgraded site. The first and longest phase of the upgrade is now finished.

      The second phase is to repeat the upgrade on the live site, and make it publicly available. First I'll re-run all of last year's work again from the start, and check we end up with a working site. (There's always a risk that some of my more recent changes have broken some of the earlier work.) 

      Once I can reliably upgrade the test server I'll run the upgrade on the real server, to see if there are any hiccups there. Then the last step will be to put the current site into read-only mode, and run the upgrade again to make sure the new site is right up to date with all the latest information from the current site.

      That will end the second phase and mark the start of the third phase, when I'll ask for your help to start using the new site and let me know what bugs you find. (The current site will continue to be online and available for reference, but we'll only be able to add new content and comments to the new site.)

      Looking back through my notes, I started the upgrade at the beginning of March 2021, so this first phase has taken many months of work. I'm crossing my fingers that phase two will be much shorter and take just weeks.

     

 

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Wells in Hong Kong

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2022-05-23 14:50

eurasian_david found this report of a well at 4 Queen's Road Central being closed in 1899:

“A WELL TO BE CLOSED.

Mr. F. Browne, Government Analyst, certified that the water obtained from a well at No. 4 Queen’s Road Central was so tainted with impurities as to be unfit for potable purposes and likely to prove injurious to health.”

Tanka People of Hong Kong

Submitted by JayneRB on Fri, 2022-05-20 14:46

Hello wonderful forum. I have enjoyed the amazing info people contribute here and really hope to get a conversation going.

I'm presently working on a photo project I started back in 2014 and have exhibited; interviewing and collecting stories of the Tanka people that lived round Hong Kong. I have now moved forward with the project to concentrate on the changes of their lives- 100's of years on the water ending in one generation with sweeping government changes.

New on Gwulo: 2022, week 18

Submitted by David on Mon, 2022-05-16 17:30

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