In a video about the campaign, Leo Burnett and The North Face boasted that they “did what no one has done before … we switched the Wikipedia photos for ours” and “[paid] absolutely nothing just by collaborating with Wikipedia.” 2/
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The video was later published by
@AdAge, which said that the agency's "biggest obstacle" was in manipulating the site "without attracting attention [from] Wikipedia moderators." 3/https://adage.com/creativity/work/north-face-top-imagens/2174261 …Prikaži ovu nit -
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@Wikimedia Foundation did not collaborate on this stunt, as The North Face falsely claimed. In fact, what they did was akin to defacing public property. 4/Prikaži ovu nit -
This is a surprising direction from The North Face, as their stated mission is to "support the preservation of the outdoors"—a public good held in trust for all of us. 5/
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For more than 18 years, hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia volunteers have been writing, perfecting, sourcing, and referencing more than 50 million articles that anyone can access for free on the internet. 6/
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Every day Wikipedia volunteers fight to protect what you read from bias and misinformation. That’s how they’ve earned your trust. 7/
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When companies like The North Face take advantage of the trust you have in Wikipedia just to sell you clothes, you should be angry. Their actions have gone directly against the spirit, purpose, and policies of Wikipedia to provide neutral, fact-based knowledge to the world. 8/
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We believe deeply in
@Wikipedia’s mission and apologize for engaging in activity inconsistent with those principles. Effective immediately, we have ended the campaign and moving forward, we’ll commit to ensuring that our teams and vendors are better trained on the site policies. -
Nope. Bigger apology. Public. Plus a donation. And fire
@LeoBurnett. Everyone has to pay here. - Još 4 druga odgovora
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Ugh, I bet the ad people at
@LeoBurnett will put all the attention this generates in their case film: "Look, we fucked up this great thing on purpose and then people paid lots of attention to us, aren't we creative?" -
They sold the idea of free publicity but neglected to inform the cost of public disgust, or the impact of their action.
@Wikipedia should consider page ban on both entities as punishment, contributors can poll vote
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