Lisa, when you give us links to look at new versions of banners, please try to use links that actually display the banners. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Gruwell Sent: Thursday, 03 December 2015 9:30 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject) 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 <gamali...@gmail.com> 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 > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> 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 <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> 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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