Great stuff LiAnna, you may want to redirect the domain to Meta until such
time as the website is developed. The only thing worse than a website with
no content is a Lorem ipsum website.
At least now we know who to contact at the WEF and who will respond quickly
to issues :)
Cheers
Russavia
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:46 AM, LiAnna Davis
<lianna(a)wikiedfoundation.org>wrote;wrote:
Hi Russavia,
I have no clue where those Flickr photos are coming from, but my guess is
it's some sort of default for whatever template was installed originally.
Clearly it's inappropriate for our organization. I've asked the web
administrator to take the Flickr link down, so hopefully that will
disappear soon.
I've been working on content for a new website over the last week, and I
hope to have something up at that url within the next week or two. Of
course we will use photos that are appropriate in both content and free
licensing.
In the interim, I am focusing my attention on getting information up on our
page on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation
LiAnna
Wiki Education Foundation
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Russavia <russavia.wikipedia(a)gmail.com
wrote:
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_…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/sets/72157637847519144/with/109529437…
[5]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/10951076296/in/set-72157637847519144
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