Dear Joseph, I am confident that your point, now that the conference is over, is clear. Can we please drop this thread, since what is done, is done, and since that many wikipedians did not share your point of view, and they made it clear by shooting so many monkey selfies?
Thanks a lot, L. 2014-08-12 0:20 GMT+02:00 Joseph Fox <[email protected]>: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
