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?

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? A few of those people we've identified live in the U.S., so we're going to reach out to the relevant individuals. We've also been discussing how to incorporate the WikiProject on English WP that deals with our monuments (WP:NRHP) to try to get help from them. We're thinking of it as a group of ambassadors or captains who can help us alleviate some of the challenge for the jury of sorting thousands of photos.

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From: Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
Date: Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Jury process in the US
To: Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl>
Cc: Matthew Roth <mroth@wikimedia.org>, Katie Filbert <aude.wiki@gmail.com>, "Richard (User:Pharos)" <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com>, Peter Ekman <pdekman@gmail.com>, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org>, Sarah Stierch <sstierch@wikimedia.org>

What about discussing this particular issue on the international mailing list? I know at least Russia has some experience with a community WLM vote - and I know India is bumping into the same problems as the US here.

Lodewijk

2012/7/28 Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl>

Hi Matthew,

Op 28-7-2012 20:43, Matthew Roth schreef:

Hi Maarten and Lodewijk,
In discussions with Wikimedia DC and other WLM-US organizers, I think we're going to try to set up a voting mechanism on-wiki so that Commons users can help us select the top 500 photos in the WLM-US pool, which we will then send to the judges (though the judges can also surface photos that don't make the top 500). We're also talking about having contestants have the option to nominate their own favorite photos to help highlight their own photos for the voting. Pharos brought up a question about being able to put a nomination button in the Uploader so that it automatically tagged the photos with a particular category if the uploader chooses to nominate particular photos of theirs. Do you think that could be easily done from a technical stance? Also curious to hear your thoughts in general about the plan.

I'm very happy to see things are starting to move in the US. Adding bells and whistles to the upload process would go against one of the core principles (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Philosophy) of WLM: Make it easy, so I'm not in favour of that. The jury process shouldn't cost the organization too much work and it shouldn't bother the (new) uploaders. I'm not sure how this will work, I don't have any experience with this model.

Maarten

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