I came across this press release today on the Wiki Education Foundation,[1]
which announces that the WEF is getting $1.39 million from the Stanton
Foundation.
When I went to the WEF's website,[2] I must say I was disappointed that the
website isn't developed at all, although there is a link to basic
information on Meta. And going to the "About" page,[3] my first thought was
"Ahhh Lorem ipsum, we meetum againem".
I must also say that the photos stood out; a "Foundation" which has
education as its mission, and the imagery that the WEF is putting its name
to is people schmoozing, drinking and gambling in a Las Vegas casino.
Probably not the sort of image you want to portray to people so early on.
It also struck me as odd that the WEF would already have a Flickr account,
and upon looking it appears the WEF has no Flickr account, but rather the
photos are from a set[4] belonging to
thewhir.com, and where they are
evidently marked "© All Rights Reserved".[5] Are these images used with
permission of WHIR? Even if so, it doesn't look good that the WEF is using
ARR imagery when Commons is home to almost 21 million freely licenced
images that could be used, and probably be more appropriate to illustrate
your mission.
I look forward to seeing a properly developed WEF website, with hopefully
appropriate freely licenced content, in the near future.
Cheers
Russavia
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Press_Release_14_…
[2]
http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/
[3]
http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/about
[4]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/sets/72157637847519144/with/109529437…
[5]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/10951076296/in/set-72157637847519144