The photo has a real "war room" feel about it that works really well.
Disclaimer: I was (and still am, really) opposed to blacking out the site for political reasons. But I do think it's a major event in our history that we could reshare.
On 18 January 2016 at 10:47, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Victor Grigas vgrigas@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jeff-
You can share both this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Wikipedia_Blackout_S...
Witness me in the upper right hand corner of the screen when "it" happens not looking up at all (and not doing so for the next 20-30 minutes) because we had lots of bugs (such as accidentally blacking out Simple English Wikipedia as well which hadn't voted to black out + other problems). As usual, you don't find everything until you go live ;).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_blackout_in_p...
As I shot them both. The top one was a media of the day. The bottom one was just hours before launch.
Personally I'd lean towards using the photo rather then the video. The video has a bit of a "celebration" feel that turns some off (we're celebrating shutting down our site etc.) including both staff and community from the time. While that feeling is certainly not universal (many still feel it was a celebratory moment) I'd lean away from it if possible.
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