Congratulations to the Wiki Education Foundation -- this is a big accomplishment, and should bode well for Wikipedia engagement in the U.S. and Canadian educational systems for a long time to come!
The Wiki Education Foundation has documented its progress well on-wiki. Currently its "home page" is on Meta Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation
I'm sure they will have more than a "parked domain" for their web site before long, but for now, it doesn't really seem like the top priority.
-Pete
p.s. If anybody's looking for more wiki-appropriate "parked domain" imagery though, isn't this Wikipe-Tan's sister? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/11/parker-ito-9.jpg
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipedia@gmail.comwrote:
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
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Press_Release_14_A... [2] http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/ [3] http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/about [4]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/sets/72157637847519144/with/1095294371... [5] https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/10951076296/in/set-72157637847519144 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe