Excellent (and prompt) resolution, thank you! We can all put down our pitchforks now.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Lisa Gruwell <[email protected]> wrote: > We agree with you that WMF fundraising should not use stock photography. > This was a mistake by a designer. We specify in our contracts with outside > designers that the images used should be custom artwork that WMF owns (and > can then share) or freely licensed images. We pulled that banner yesterday > and asked our designers for a new custom image that we can freely license. > We are running another banner with a custom light bulb image at 100% now. > This artwork will be added to Commons. We also have a few new banners > featuring some beautiful Commons images that are under development: Stars > <https://en.wikipedia.org/?banner=B1516_0916_en6C_dsk_p1_lg_strinf&force=1&country=US> > , Penguin > <https://en.wikipedia.org/?banner=B1516_0916_en6C_dsk_p1_lg_pngsml&force=1&country=US> > Thank > you for pointing this out to us. > > > > Best, > > Lisa > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't think this rises to the level of outrage, but it's a little >> important. The goal of the WMF should be to promote free and open >> content, and this adds to the perception that the WMF is disconnected >> from those goals and the community. I don't care if they use a stock >> photo if they need to, but when they have smart, capable, and creative >> people like Victor Grigas on staff, they can certainly manage to >> photograph a cup of coffee and release it as a CC photo to set a good >> example for the community and movement. >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Gerard Meijssen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hoi, >> > It is that time of year where money is asked from the people. Arguably we >> > would do more when the Wikimedia foundation was not so FF-ing Wikipedia >> > centred.The arguments for not giving Wikisource have passed their sell by >> > date and usability for exposing its wonderful work is imho a >> disfigurement >> > on the resume of the WMF (among others). This is a cheap one to fix. It >> > makes sense to fix it as I understand sources are part of "Wikimedia >> Zero" >> > and it would make a world of a difference when the sources can actually >> be >> > found. >> > >> > Unicef among others has fundraising campaigns for education because it is >> > not its most important priority. As long as kids die because of lack of >> > food, safe water, preventable disease and temperature it is obvious why. >> > Such an excuse the WMF does not have. It could ask for additional funding >> > for Wikisource, for Wikidata for ... and it would have a solid argument. >> > Thanks, >> > GerardM >> > >> > On 3 December 2015 at 10:25, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Under the redesigned grants scheme, WMF Project grants might be able >> to >> >> > help with this kind of software development work for Commons and/or >> >> > Wikisource. I happen to know a developer here in Cascadia who might be >> >> > interested, either as an individual or in association with a Wikimedia >> >> > affiliate, in doing this kind of work on a grant or contract basis. >> >> > >> >> > Pinging Kacie for comment about possible grant funding. (: >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi Pine, thanks for the comment. >> >> I understand what you mean, and I do believe there is space to work on >> >> Wikisource via grants, BUT. >> >> >> >> But I already did a Individual Engagement Grant in 2013 (with David >> Cuenca) >> >> regarding Wikisource. >> >> It was great, but IEGs don't give you staff time. So me and David used >> >> Google Summer of Code, and we mentored 4 projects: if I'm not mistaken, >> >> only one was really finished, meaning it produced concrete results on >> >> Wikisource. Others stopped before (for example, two dedicated mediawiki >> >> extensions were not put in production). Within the IEG, we made a big >> >> survey among Wikisource communities, to develop a wishlist and a roadmap >> >> for WS communities. We set up a Wikisource Community User Group. We >> talked >> >> and talked. Bugs were and are reported, from years. Two weeks ago, we >> >> convened the very first internationl Wikisource conference, in Vienna, >> >> hosted by Wikimedia Austria (3 members from WMF were there, and we had a >> >> great and productive time, reports will follow). >> >> >> >> I've personally been involved in all of these efforts, so I've also seen >> >> that real impact of Wikisource infrastructure (core WS extension, >> design, >> >> interface, performance, development) has been minimal. I don't really >> want >> >> to have this conversation here and now, but I have had a fair amount of >> >> experience in this to say that until the WMF (or some affiliate big >> enough >> >> and high enough in the software pipeline) commit to WS, change won't >> >> magically happen by itself. We have practically one real volunteer >> >> developer, and he's full of work to do (also, I already asked him if he >> >> would like to receive a grant to work on certain issues, and he can't, >> and >> >> he's the only one who could do that, thanks to his unique experience). >> >> >> >> Grant works for little things, I'm afraid. 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