Good Job ! We were inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM who Spoke the freesb.eu conf in Vlore Albania and motivated us to start our own Photo Contest for Kosovo. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContestThere is still alot to do, most of the activity is on Facebook, but we are slowly getting people to free pictures up for commons under a creative commons license. Any who wants to help nominate pictures or review them would be great. thanks, mike
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > A coincidence: last weekend, in Germany and the Netherlands both the > winners of photo contests were made public. In Germany the Zedler > Medaille jury gave no first and second prize, while in the Netherlands > the competition Wiki loves monuments honoured quite a number of > winners. > (In English about the Dutch gathering: > http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/mini-conference-in-utrecht/ ) > > Maybe the Zedler criteria were not made clear enough to the > participants, I don't know. In the Dutch case, I was stunned and > positively impressed by the straight forward application of three > simple criteria: the picture had to be clear (focused etc.), > encyclopedic and beautiful. > > The Dutch winner is this picture: > > http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Amsterdam_-_Vijzelstraat_27-35_%28halsgevel%29.JPG > It may not meet the requirements of a purely technically or > esthetically oriented jury. But it has great encyclopedic value. It > shows the monument, a 17th century building in Amsterdam, in its > actual modern use. On the right, you see an old picture of how the > building looked like earlier. The advertisement for light bulb and the > gentlemen dressed in modern leisure related fashion fix the picture > into our modern times. > > Kind regards > Ziko > > > -- > Ziko van Dijk > The Netherlands > http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
