Hello Matthew,
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
WLM-US organizers have been discussing the value of
setting up a community
voting process on-wiki for the initial selection of the top 500 or so photos
in the WLM-US pool, which we will then send to the judges (though we're
thinking it would be wise to have the judges also surface photos they like
that don't make the top 500). Can anyone on this list (particularly Russian
organizers) give us feedback on what works well and what does not work well?
For us
it was important to involve community to the contest; may be
you know that ~90%+ of our participants in 2011 were newbies, and we
need to do a great work to include active users in the future. In the
last summer people said 'Why do we need WLM at all? No one is
forbidden to walk and take pictures of buildings without competition',
and at last time people says about WLM as about an interesting and
useful expirience (but the problem with an interest of community still
exists because of unfreedom of panorama, lack of people and so on).
But we used the poll as the second stage, not the first; we had 10
nominations, each of it has it's own purpose, and our jury made a
shortlist. In this year we're doing the site for voting and trying to
find an ideal solution - may be social network competition, with a
demonstration who has been the most active in the evaluation of
photographs, with checking on the reasonableness of this activity.
Did you reach out to Commons contributors who had
helped with any of the
Featured Picture selection or Picture of the Year voting for feedback?
Yes, last
year we used Kalan's script, that was created for POTY.
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regards,
Lvova Anastasia