Pretty sure this was spontaneous but I can't imagine for a moment the social media team had nothing to do with it - the photo was printed in colour dozens of times purely for this!
Joe *Joseph Fox* enwp.org/user:foxj On 11 August 2014 23:05, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct me if i'm wrong, but to the best of my knowledge this was mostly > spontaneous during the hackathon? If it was social media team then it wad a > job well done, but that ix not how i perceived it. > > Lodewijk > On Aug 11, 2014 12:07 AM, "Joseph Fox" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’ll agree with that, Tom. It strikes me as the social media team jumping >> at a chance to go viral - which in fairness is sort of their job. It sucks >> that these kinds of roles can be as unintentionally dickish as in this case. >> >> Joe >> >> On 11 August 2014 at 12:01:38 am, Tom Morris ([email protected]) wrote: >> >> Thomas Morton wrote: >> > I find this a bit distasteful, rather akin to rubbing it in the >> > photographers face. >> > >> > Its fine to take a stand on a point of copyright. >> > >> > But being dicks about winning is surely not the sort of attitude we want >> > to display? Hardly helps support our stance as serious, rather than >> > trollish. >> > >> >> Agreed. It is rather tacky, juvenile and slightly unpleasant. Be >> magnanimous in victory and all that. It'd be nice to know who thought >> "take a photo with the monkey selfie" was a useful and productive piece >> of free culture activism. Because it just makes us look like mean jerks. >> >> -- >> Tom Morris >> <http://tommorris.org/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> -- >> Joseph Fox >> Sent with Airmail >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimania-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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