Buying a photo, when we have ready access to massive amounts of freely usable content, would be quite unacceptable and a misuse of funds, no matter the amount of the funds. I hope someone can actually clarify what happened here.
Also, the banner pops up, comes down, and covers most of the page. That's really not acceptable. Wikimedia should follow acceptable ad practices, which means a small and STATIC banner, not something that moves, shouts, or otherwise interferes with page content. That should be done even if it makes it less effective and raises less money, just to address the inevitable butbutbut. On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > A missed opportunity to celebrate one of our volunteer photographers, > especially considering the competitions that have included photographs > of food in the last year. Shame to fall back on stock photos and > commercial pro-photographers when we have our own massive project to > provide this as a free resource. > > Fae > > On 2 December 2015 at 14:46, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > "On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:14 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I might have missed it, but I can't see any attribution for the image… > as I > >> doubt it will be a click through to the file page. > > > > I couldnt find the image in > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cups_of_black_coffee > > > > The image is only on donate.wikimedia.org, uploaded by "BHouse > > (Trilogy)", which I assume means they are an employee of > > http://www.trilogyinteractive.com (see previous years Form 990): > > > > https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coffee-price-overhead.jpg > > > > It appears to be a stock photo, by photographer Dimitrios Stefanidis. > > > > http://tineye.com/search/2267feed8737197d64056553011261b75ef34a9e/ > > > > http://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coffee-on-white-25228505 > > > > So my hopeful guess WMF bought a licence to the photograph, but even > > that would be inappropriate IMO. > > > > It wouldnt have been hard to make a free photo of a coffee, or even > > create a derivative of this lovely CC0 SVG > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cup_of_Coffee.svg > > > > (assuming the license is correct; I cant see CC0 on > > http://rejke.deviantart.com/art/Coffee-384565868) > > > > -- > > John Vandenberg > > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
