I'm copying here what I sent to Mono privately as well, but also saying this: I'm not sure a semi-final round is necessarily the best use for the Centralnotice tool. Even the Board of Trustees only gets one round advertised...
My comments to Mono: *Mono, I'm curious about the reasoning for 200 edits requirement to vote. I get it for Board elections or Arbcom.... those people are electing representatives who effectively legislate on their behalf. But why, for the best picture, do we have to have a suffrage requirement higher than about 10? I've had one complaint already. I note one on the contest's talk page. This seems to be at odds with your stated goal of increasing participation. pb * ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 (office) phili...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Mono mium <monom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I'm Mono on the Wikimedia Commons. > > > I'm helping to > organize< > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Committee> > of > the Fifth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the > Year<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2010>. > In case you haven't heard about it, it's a contest where the featured > pictures selected from 2010 on the Wikimedia Commons are voted upon by the > community. Last year, a great deal of users participated, however, the > Wikimedia community landscape has changed, as many of our newer editors > aren't used to the Commons and haven't ever seen POTY play out. We'd like > to > see an increase in participation from around our projects. > > Because of this, I feel that it would be appropriate to post a global > notice > for logged-in editors during the competition (there are two rounds; each > one > lasts about a week) to encourage the broader community to participate. The > general consensus is that non-fundraising banners require community > consensus, so I'd like to get some feedback. > > Finally, I would like to be the first to invite you to participate in the > contest...it is expected to occur in early May. Hopefully, you'll see a > global notice announcing the start of Round 1. Until then, the contest is > looking for help translating several messages into different languages over > at the translation > page< > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Translations > > > . > > > Best regards, > > Mono > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l