Hi, please don't forget to add the winning pictures (with short descriptions) to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners#Kenya:)
Then we'll also spend a blog post on it! Lodewijk 2012/10/31 Limoke Oscar <[email protected]> > > Hi Everyone, > > As we all know, Kenya participated in the Wiki Loves Monuments Contest > that concluded recently. We had 97 images uploaded to Commons of Kenyan > Monuments cutting across Kenya's diverse geography. Surprising to all of > us, we had images from as far as Nyeri and Mombasa > > A jury of 3 was selected to help judge the images that would participate > in the International Contest. The Jury was Diverse and had consisted of > memvsr from: Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Ghana(Unchapter) and Wikimedia > Kenya. > > The judging criteria involved each member of the Jury selecting his/her > top 10 best images . After which each member was then allowed to score each > image he/she had selected with 10points for best image and 1 point for the > least. The points across all the images were then summed and the final > score for each image used to select the final images . Incase of a tie in > points, the image that was voted by the most number of Jury members was > given a higher weight and so forth. > > Here are the Top 10 Images that would compete in the International Contest: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOMO_KENYATTA.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATION_CENTRE.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_National_monument.jpg > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATIONAL_MONUMENT_1.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SILVER-_JUBILEE.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Towers.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10years_Nyayo_era.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSSF_Building,_Nairobi.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FREEDOM_HEROES_-.JPG > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_forest.JPG > > > Next Steps: > > - First is to Congratulate everyone who prticipated in the Challenge > either through helping iwth the ourgainization ir as a participant. > - Since we could not ask for a budget for National Winners, we would > be trying to solicit for consolation prizes to award to all the Top Images > from Friendly Chapters of The Foundation > - To reach out to all the participants(especially out of Nairobi) who > will be key to our scaling of our projects across the country bearing in > mInd that most od us hail in Nairobi > - Encouraged by the small success of this, we hope to make a > better budget and preparations foe next years WLM > > Once again, congratulations to all > > -- > Regards, > > Limoke Oscar, > Dream.Believe.Become....a world of endless oportunities > >
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