Does anyone else feel weird seeing the Wikimedia Foundation encouraging its volunteers to go to Medium and Facebook to give feedback?
Medium and Facebook are commercial platforms with Medium using paywalls to force visitors to pay to read. Promoting these sites using WMF funded content seems to go directly against the stated WMF top level values. Thanks Fae On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 08:58, Sandra Fauconnier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > George Oates, the designer behind Flickr, Flickr Commons and Open Library > (among others) has looked at Wikimedia Commons and gives tips from her > perspective how it can be improved. > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/10/29/george-oates-conversation/ > > The interview is also cross-posted to Medium, where you can leave comments: > > https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/how-could-wikimedia-commons-be-improved-a-conversation-with-designer-george-oates-f67debbafe44 > > There's also discussion about this post going on at the Wikimedia Commons > village pump, and in the Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group. > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Blog_post:_interview_with_George_Oates_about_Wikimedia_Commons > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/1879946208719868/ > > Cheers! Sandra > > -- > Sandra Fauconnier > Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @glamwiki > > How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia > communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
