Well this is why we should have prize money. I would be willing to even donate a small amount for prizes for kosovo if it was tax deductable (in germany where I live). mike On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/12/12 Jan Ainali <[email protected]>: >> 2011/12/12 Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> >>> >>> > 2011/12/12 Yaroslav M. Blanter<[email protected]>: >>> >> I think this is a good direction, but I can not support the proposal in >>> >> this form. What if we have just one crappy image? What if we have the >>> >> image >>> >> of the exterior, would we need the image of the interior? What if we >>> >> have >>> >> several monuments under one code? >>> >>> Let's put it a bit stronger. I would never support such a proposal. I >>> support positive steering ("we encourage you to upload photo's of >>> monuments that not yet have a (good) picture"), not negative steering >>> ("WLM2011 we limit the eligible monuments to those without an image"). > > Then you're bound to encounter the same kind of criticism as this year. > >> Yes, I agree that positive steering is better. We could have one of the >> judging criteria to be uniqueness or value adding, and explain that when >> images are similar in other criterias, the ones that bring in new aspects to >> Commons will be regarded higher. > > What you want (and what people are saying on these pages) is a Commons > contest, not a photo contest. That is, with a Wiki(p|m)edia jury and > all. You can't reasonably expect to have professional photographers in > the jury and ask them to rate based on the utility for a certain site. > > This would be a big step backwards from this year's contest in my > opinion and a huge failed opportunity for a lot of content to be > freed. I'm fairly sure many photographers will be reluctant to > participate with hi res images. > > Strainu > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
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