Are you certain? I came up with it as an alternative to the 'flip' side, or opposite what a person would normally expect, and I didn't have any negative comments on the title when it initially ran on the Signpost.
That said, I'm open to improving the title. My alternative opening was "Behind the comedic veil," if anyone thinks that is better. Thank you for the feedback!
Best, --Ed
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not sure its really a dark side, so much as a downside. Dark sides conjure up human rights abuses. Downsides are frustrating setbacks. Can we adjust? On May 28, 2015 4:46 AM, "Fabrice Florin" fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you Joe for your constructive feedback — and thank you Ed for your flexibility :)
I updated the blog post as well.
Cheers,
Fabrice
On May 27, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Ed Erhart the.ed17@gmail.com wrote:
I'm fine with either construction! Thanks for looking at it, Joe--I'm appreciate it.
--Ed
On May 27, 2015, at 6:39 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Ed - my reasoning is that something has an impact *on* something, not *to* something, so it didn’t make a lot of sense. But it’s just a little nitpick really!
Joe
On 28 May 2015 at 2:38:13 am, Ed Erhart (the.ed17@gmail.com) wrote:
Hi all,
I'm fine with that change. I thought that it might be interpreted as John Oliver editing Wikipedia himself, that's all.
I'll send a fuller email tomorrow to introduce myself, but I'm happy to help anyone who has questions about the Wikimedia community! Please feel free to email me at any time.
--Ed On May 27, 2015 9:27 PM, "Fabrice Florin" fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yeah, I’m having second thoughts about that too … Ed, would you mind if we used the wording which Joe suggests? It just doesn’t seem right as it is.
Other than that, I’m really glad that we published this piece, and am very grateful to Ed for adapting it for the blog.
This is as good a time as any to welcome Ed as our new content editor for the blog and community profiles for the summer.
Welcome aboard, Ed! We look forward to learning from your experience as editor emeritus on the Signpost and doing some great work together. :)
Fabrice
On May 27, 2015, at 6:16 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Surely this should be "...'fowl' jokes *on* Wikipedia" (not "to")?
Otherwise LGTM, except I'd go with this for FB/G+ (or similar):
- When John Oliver called on the Internet to edit the Wikipedia
biographies of US congressional representatives, the Internet answered -- and Wikipedia's volunteer editors started to clean up the vandalism. (link)
best, Joe
On 28 May 2015 at 01:49, Andrew Sherman asherman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Everyone,
We just published "A dark side of comedy: the impact of John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes to Wikipedia" to the blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/27/dark-side-of-comedy/
Thanks to Ed for writing and adapting his post from the Signpost to the blog. Thanks as well to Fabrice for editing.
Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.
*Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):*
• A dark side of comedy: the #Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind @iamJohnOliver/@LastWeekTonight's fowl jokes (link)
• Behind the veil: #Wikipedia volunteers clean up vandalism wrought by @LastWeekTonight's fowl jokes (link)
*Facebook/Google+*
• When John Oliver called on the Internet to edit the Wikipedia biographies of US congressional representatives, the Internet answered. This required Wikipedia's volunteer editors to clean up vandalism on a wide range of articles. (link)
Thanks,
-- Andrew Sherman Digital Communications | Wikimedia Foundation
*E:* asherman@wikimedia.org *WMF:* ASherman (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)
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