Let's have a look at the mission of Wikimedia :
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally. (1)
Is there any room
Teofilo hett schreven:
I discovered this morning poor composition as an argument for
deleting a picture (from someone else, not me). It means that the
picture of the day people are slowly highjacking Wikimedia Commons
to turn it into a beauty contest.
If that really is the only reason for
Does educational value figure in the PotD or PotY contests? It should.
Other projects have contests to produce content; it drives
participation and quality. As long as the value being sought is
understood (great content that furthers the project mission), then I
don't see the problem.
Nathan
Apparently the image in question is
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guy_with_pierced_nipple.jpg.
The deletion request didn't say bad composition but Low quality,
outside of project scope http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:PS.
Being listed in a gallery does not grant an automatic
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Does educational value figure in the PotD or PotY contests? It should.
Other projects have contests to produce content; it drives
participation and quality. As long as the value being sought is
understood (great content that
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
In answer to my own question, the picture contests revolve around
featured images - and the featured image requirements include an
assessment of value that is based upon several criteria related to the
core Commons mission.
