On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone articulate a valid reason why the freezeframe from the video posted on the frontpage was just about the most graphic still possible from the video?
Presumably the person who set up the templates thought that was the best
frame to use.[1] You should ask him what his reasoning was.
It looks like a single person is handling Commons' MOTD rotation,[2][3] so I would guess that very few people actually saw what the thumb would be beforehand.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Motd/2014-05-08_thu... [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Media_of_the_day/Archive_1#N... [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pristurus&oldi...