Congratulations to the Wiki Education Foundation -- this is a big accomplishment, and should bode well for Wikipedia engagement in the U.S. and Canadian educational systems for a long time to come!
The Wiki Education Foundation has documented its progress well on-wiki. Currently its "home page" is on Meta Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation I'm sure they will have more than a "parked domain" for their web site before long, but for now, it doesn't really seem like the top priority. -Pete p.s. If anybody's looking for more wiki-appropriate "parked domain" imagery though, isn't this Wikipe-Tan's sister? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/11/parker-ito-9.jpg On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Russavia <russavia.wikipe...@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_April_2014 > [2] http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/ > [3] http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/about > [4] > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/sets/72157637847519144/with/10952943715/ > [5] > https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhir/10951076296/in/set-72157637847519144 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
