On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:26 AM, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:
I agree that posting a notification to this list was appropriate, but not with forking or moving the discussion to here.
I wish there was actually a discussion to fork. Both The_ed17 and I raised it on the Main_page Talk and the Commons administrator's noticeboard, where things of urgency are normally monitored. Silence. Crickets.
If it comes to a choice of keeping images of emaciated concentration camp corpses on the front page of a high profile Wikimedia project and raising this issue on Wikimedia-L, I choose the latter.
-Andrew
Indeed. No need to beat around the bush here - the purpose of e-mailing this list was explicitly to canvass for more opinions, more participants. The policy on en.wp is of mixed usefulness, imho, and often abused to restrict the availability of useful input and illumination. It doesn't apply to this list or to Commons or Meta.
On the actual topic - what's the base process for selecting a still from a featured video? Is it automatic once the video is selected? Does the user have to specify a particular frame?
~Nathan