Of course if you only use this tool as a means to get the best 1% of the pictures... it doesn't have to be as precise. Just have the final selection in a second round, with zero scores - then vote again for those or have a discussion on the mailing list. <div>
<br></div><div>Personally, I think every country can decide its own process - so lets make the tool somewhat dynamic, but not shoot down major options. Last year Russia had a public voting, and it seems they were happy with it. I'm no big fan of it, but who am I to stop it? :) <br>
<div><br></div><div>Lodewijk<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/6/22 Platonides <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:platonides@gmail.com" target="_blank">platonides@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 21/06/12 18:29, aude wrote:<br>
> We have a technical volunteer "intern" helping us in DC and this is<br>
> something he wants to work on.<br>
><br>
> I'm not exactly sure how the process worked last year, but we're<br>
> thinking either integrating something into the WordPress site so that<br>
> people can browse photos (pulled from Commons, like InstantCommons) and<br>
> rate them. A public voting phase could help narrow the selection for<br>
> the jury, which could also make use of the tool.<br>
><br>
> Thoughts? suggestions? brilliant ideas?<br>
<br>
</div>Each instance used its own system. Nuno made a web application for<br>
voting, from which you could start. There is also a toolserver tool<br>
which facilitates downloading all the files from a category.<br>
Last year we provided zips with all the images which our jury<br>
downloaded. Then they chose those they deemed the best, which went to a<br>
second round.<br>
If you're joining the jury in one room (with multiple computers), it may<br>
be simpler if they are provided directly a copy of the images in an<br>
external drive. Remember that not all your jury members will be tech-savvy.<br>
<br>
If I were designing such system, I'd make it an interface where the jury<br>
would go giving a mark from 1 to 10 to each photo. But not actually<br>
restricted to that. So after 200 photos, it could give a 12 if needed<br>
(instead of recalculating all previous votes), or even provide marks<br>
with decimal points.<br>
The interface itself would be just a (zoomable) gallery of the photos<br>
that he didn't review yet (plus auxiliar pages, to view the best ranked<br>
by you, change a vote, etc.).<br>
<br>
What would be interesting is that they could be using it from the first<br>
day, so instead of reviewing all files after the competition closes,<br>
they could keep up with the upload rate.<br>
As far as a 10 given on Sep 1st is the same as one given on 30th Sep<br>
(which is easy by things like moving the bar higher up to a 14), it'd be<br>
equivalent.<br>
You then fetch the N most ranked from each member to next round, so<br>
different scales aren't a problem.<br>
<br>
<br>
As for a public voting, I don't think it would work. You would need each<br>
person to review a significant number of files, otherwise the noise<br>
given by each different reviewer (a 10 by me could be an 8 by you). And<br>
you won't be getting volunteers to review thousands of photos. Only the<br>
jury will do that, because they agreed to. (Obviously, anyone is able to<br>
volunteer to be jury. We were discussing on wlm-iberconf ml giving a<br>
jury for another country and getting one).<br>
<br>
What I had thought as a possibility for involving the public was to<br>
allow it to choose a number of photos that pass to the next round (just<br>
as each jury does), thus ensuring they get attention. But that won't the<br>
jury task of having to view all of them.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
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