Brianna Laugher wrote:
Hi,
I didn't see it announced yet, so here goes - voting for the 2008
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year is now open.
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008>
Voting eligibility: all Wikimedians who were registered before 1
January 2009 and with at least 200 edits on any Wikimedia project (at
time of voting)
Voting period: Round 1 closes on Feb 26.
Images: There are 501 images, which were made Featured Pictures during
2008. They are arranged into 11 categories (14 galleries). The top 10%
from each category will go to Round 2, the final round. There will be
category winners as well as the overall "picture of the year".
More coverage:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-02-16/Commons_Picture_of_the_Year>
cheers,
Brianna
Hello,
I did not even realise it had not been announced and I already voted a
few days ago :-)
My two cents
* great images. Really top stuff
* but the voting system... SO unpractical :-(
I have meant to ask what happened with the toolserver (or the team
dealing with the toolserver) so that it could not be used this year ?
On another note... did you consider setting up a unique voting page for
each of the 10 or so categories. You might consider building a unique
page (for each category) with gallery-size images and making it possible
to vote under each little image. That would be a HUGE saving of time for
voters (and a neat way to see which are the favorites at a glance :-))
If votes become too numerous for one image, set up a separate voting
template for it.
Alternatively, if you really want to keep voting pages separately for
each image, it would have been easier to vote on a separate page rather
than at the bottom of the description page (long to load + generous
scrolling of numerous languages description).
Now, I say this... but maybe it has been discussed at length and
participants thought this system the best one. If so, I apology for my
comments.
Ant