Wiki Loves Monuments has as goal to get more images of cultural heritage on
our platforms (among other goals). We want at least one photo for every
monument.
For most countries I think it is impossible to reach that goal without
tourists contributions.
Our goal is also to share knowledge from
Hi!
It probably depends on what you want your competition to be for. There are
easier and less expensive ways of encouraging quality images and the
international competition hasn't changed it's taste of pictures in many
years. These considerations should not play as an important role for local
Hi,
As told in earlier mails by many others, national rules of WLM totally
depend on local organizers and they are free to restrict participation in
their context. But that also means any restrictions might lead to less
number of quality images and that can reflect in the international
Hi,
You can actually do this both ways.
Firstly, indeed you can create participation restriction whatever way you want
(e.g. residents of Suriname only). The only restriction is your national legal
constraints. In some countries they allow only local residents to win prizes
because of legal
I'm reading the conversations and the only thing I'm able to think is how one
would ensure the privacy of the photographers participating? An organizer
should declare the governance and data protection setup of the
nationality/place of living information of the photographers. Who would have
I can well imagine this. At the same time, I can appreciate the concerns
that I read as underpinning this question: how can we create an environment
where the people living in country X, feel that they have a fair chance to
actually win the competition, rather than all prizes being scooped up by
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for chiming in, it is great to hear your advice on the
topic and we will certainly discuss all your points during the evaluation!
I will keep you posted on the outcome.
@Lodewijk: I did mean inhabitants, thanks!
Best wishes,
Michelle van Lanschot
Projectleider
While each country organizer is free to make whatever silly rules they
want, I would be furious if an affiliate chose to deny me from
participating in a Wiki Loves X where I live just because I am not from
that country, unless they were legally required to do so.
I would even be angry if someone
I think that limiting the participation to a WLM contest only to inhabitants of
a certain place (or citizens of a certain state) would contrast with our
Universal Code of Conduct and more in general with our policy to allow
contributions from everybody without even asking who they are and where
well, the rules can apply to giving prizes. if one cannot legally give out
prizes to other nationalities -- that should be stated in the rules. then
people who are not from the country will be notified, and if they decided
to upload anyway -- that would be their own decision
З повагою / Best
By top ten photographers, it would be keeping the top 10 (with potentially
a person winning multiple places) but then going down through the ranking
on Montage to find the next top placed photographers, not assessing
peoples' entries as sub sets - just for clarity. It would functionally be
the
Procedurally, 'top ten photographers' seems harder to execute than 'top ten
photos with only one photo per photographer' (comparing someone's entire
set of submissions is just.. hard). But that is more a matter of execution
than a value statement.
As for restricting who can participate: This is
Having taken advice on this, from next year Ireland is going to award
prizes to the top ten photographers rather than the top ten images. Though
only allowing one image from each person in the top 10 is an interesting
approach as well.
We have had non-Irish winners in the past, from the United
As far as I remember, each country can choose its own rule (within reason
obviously).
For instance, to answer Mārtiņš point, in most countries, one person can
only be once in the Top 10 but some countries choose to keep the top 10 as
it is (multiple photos by the same user or not).
I don't see
Hi!
We had a similar problem with (2) in a small country (Latvia). A good
solution was to set a limit of max 3 images per person in the Top 10. If
anyone gets more, these are discarded in favour of the next images in
ranking.
Mārtiņš
ceturtd., 2022. g. 1. dec., plkst. 15:56 — lietotājs
It wouldn't be fair to the natives of Suriname. I believe entries should
come from the natives of the country to play fair.
Regards
Bright Ayisi
PhotoHunt Ghana
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 1:56 PM Michelle van Lanschot <
vanlansc...@wikimedia.nl> wrote:
> Dear everyone,
>
> The WLM Suriname team
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