I agree that visibility of the description is of vital importance. As it may be a complex process to ensure that the description field gets updated when it is changed online, I think it would for this year be perfectly OK simply to show the description as originally uploaded as a static text field. More complex things could come later.
Michael On 21 Aug 2013, at 09:39, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > A simple comment, but I think that it may be helpful. > > I have been in the coordination of the jury of WM CH last year and what has > been really missed in the tool of the jury of last year was the *description* > of the photo. > > I think that the description is really important mainly to evaluate the > importance of the photo and to give to the photographer the possibility to > explain his experience. > > The jury without the description can evaluate an image and not a photo, and > they miss something really important. > > If we reduce the photo contest to a paranoic pushing the button to take > picture, the value of the contest is a lot decreased. > > During the final ceremony we invited people to describe *their experience and > what they tried to communicate in the picture* and we discovered that a > simple picture has been a big experience for some participants because they > described the difficulties to take the picture but also we discovered that > some pictures have been peculiar because they took some monuments in general > closed to the public. > > For instance I remember a picture of a wall in the campaign of the French > Swiss, the jury has evaluated it not so important but I found it fantastic > because it was evident the technic of construction of celtic people. > Basically the photo had a really *high descriptive value* and in my opinion > this is the main value because we have to use these photos for an > encyclopedia and not to produce calendars or presents for Christmas time. > > Regards > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, David Narvaez <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi, > > I recorded this video of the workflow of configuring and starting to > use the jury tool. Unfortunately, at the time of that recording > several things had not been implemented yet, which I'll detail in the > list below. > > http://wlm.wmflabs.org/wlmjurytoolworkflow.ogv > > The workflow after installing the tool using the steps mentioned in > the other thread is more or less as follows: > > 1. Select the number of rounds of your contest. This is, how many > times will the jury go over the pics > > 2. For each round you will be presented with a screen to configure the > options for that round. Then, for instance, if you configured your > contest to be of 3 rounds in step 1, you will see 3 configuration > screens in this step. > > 2.1 For each round you can select whether you want that to be an open > round or an invitational round. An open round means anybody can create > an account in your tool, and go over the pics. An invitational round > means only certain accounts in your tool will be able to go over the > pics of this round. Pending in my TODO list is a configuration option > to specify what accounts are invited to that round. > > 2.2 For each round you can select what type of scores will be used. > Binay score means Yes/No, while Star-based gives the jury a 5-stars > range to pic for each photo. > > 2.3 [Not in the video] For each round you can select what the scoring > policy will be. You can pick between the following options: All photos > are scored exactly once and All photos are scored by at least x > juries. Obviously, if you have an invitational round of 5 juries, then > configuring this round so that All photos are scored by at least 5 > juries means All photos are scored by all juries. > > 2.4 For each round you can select the input of that round. Input may > be a category in commons, or a selection of the photos from the > previous round, or a plain text file containing the name of the photos > in commons. Whatever you pic here will be used to show a configuration > screen when the round is about to start. > > 3. Once all the information for each round is set, Round 1 is about to > start, so the tool will show a configuration screen for that. In the > video, since Round 1 was set to have a commons category as input, the > configuration screen asks for a commons category, you type the name, > and the pics from that round are loaded from the category. Had it been > configured as having input from a plain text file, the tool would have > asked for a file instead of a category in the configuration screen. > > And that's it for the moment, there are some other pending things but > I think this covers most of the hassle of configuring the tool. Let me > know if you have any feedback. > > David E. 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