I think that the three judging criteria are perfect:
1. Technical quality
2. Artistic quality
3. Documentary usefullness
All the problem is how to balance them. It depends on the jury composition. We have
identified three potential groups of jury members:
* Professional photographers
* Heritage managers
* Wikimedians
A professional photographer will focus on artistic quality provided that there is a
minimum standard technical quality. Heritage managers and Wikimedians will focus on second
and thirth criteria. The composition of such jury favors the wow factor. Quality images on
Commons are only judged by technical quality and not by other subjective criteria contrary
to what is common in photo contests. I think this explains the different assessments that
have occured. Forming a jury is not easy, and make it balanced according to the desired
judging criteria it is even more difficult. More involvement of users from Commons may be
useful to balance the criteria.
Vicenç
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:09:14 +0100
From: polimerek(a)gmail.com
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] judging criteria
2012/1/16 Nina Wikipedia <nina.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:
I don't like the winners in 2011. They are
nice pictures, but they tell
little about the monuments. I want institutions to use the pictures and to
give pictures to commons. If we have something unik that will be easier to
do. I am in the moment talking to 2 parts about cooperation in GLAM-work and
want usefull pictures not only the nice ones. As trained in
building-protection I see a great opertunity to have pictures documenting
monuments in many countries and want people to think about this in 2012.
Indeed, as I am generally against forsing anything on local juries - I
would seriously reconsider the way that interational jury will work.
IMHO 2011 international jury was mainly focused on "wow factor" and
not enough on the documentary usefullnes and technical quality of the
picture. I would suggest to do in 2012 in such a way:
a) local juries choose pictures for international nomination as they wish
b) picture nominated must go normal judgement for quality pictures on
Commons and only those which get the quality picture status can be
considered by jury
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images_candidates
c) international jury chooses winners from the b) set of pictures - not from a)
It should be announced before contest, so there will be up to local
juries if they are about to send pictures to b) before their
nomination or just take a risk and let do it international jury.
--
Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek
http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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