Hi Asaf,

the idea was floated before, and I guess there are advantages and disadvantages. The biggest downside imho is that it is too complicated to explain quickly to new editors. 

However, this is typically something that could just be tried out by a country - and if I recall correctly there were a few countries that were planning to experiment with it during Wiki Loves Earth this year. Not exactly the way you mentioned it but in adding a writing component in general. Maybe good to bring up there? 

Best,
Lodewijk


2014-06-13 3:48 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org>:
Hi.

In a grant discussing for funding this year's WLM competition in Pakistan, a member of the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC) brought up an idea I thought worth thinking about: offering one or two prizes, alongside the major top photo prizes, to those submitting good photos as well as creating/expanding Wikipedia articles about those objects.

The grant discussion is here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WMPK/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_Pakistan_2014#Increase_participation.2C_WLM_style

As you can read in the discussion above, the organizers would prefer not to (which is perfectly fine), but since they mentioned, as one reason, that it would stand out among other WLMs, I was wondering if that is indeed the case, i.e. if no other WLM competition offers prizes on this basis, or, indeed, on other thematic focuses (e.g. "best photo by a newbie"?)

I'm not strongly claiming it should definitely be done, nor that it would be a good fit everywhere if it were done.  I'm just interested in floating the notion and hearing your thoughts.

Cheers,

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