Hi Ruben,

thanks for flagging this. As a practical thought, is this also valid for
admins (probably not). Otherwise you could either ask an admin to do it for
you, or ask temporary admin status.

Best,
Lodewijk


2013/7/3 Ruben Demus <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> in 2011 and 2012 we contacted the winners with a private wikimail. I
> recently had the honor to do this for an other competition
> (WikiLovesPublicArt in Austria) and had to find out that there is a new
> spam-protection on commons that only allows to send 5 mails and than my
> user was blocked to send wikimails for hours. Since (at least in Austria)
> we also had prices for more than the top 10, it would take weeks to contact
> them all. I think we need an alternative way to contact the winners or a
> way to send more wikimails - which in my eyes is the best way to contact
> users that are new to commons and don't look at their discussion page...
>
> Best
> Ruben
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