On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The POTY is not only about photographs. Many of the pictures selected for the POTY are restorations and many of those are maps, lithographs etc and also photographs. Illustrations are aps also part of the program.
I expect that what you want is to exclude material from for instance Flickr.. Not limit POTY to photographs only, right ?
Certainly not just photographs.
Being inclusive of significant restoration works is probably also reasonable, though I'm not sure how to write a clear criteria to differentiate real restorative works from simple cropping or the like.
I think a guiding principle is that POTY should celebrating the best works of the contributors who make commons unique and special.
Freely licensed works imported from elsewhere are also a part of what makes commons special but individually imported image don't reflect the real contribution made in that kind of effort. The contribution people make to commons when they import large numbers of images from flickr and the like is not the benefit of the single images but the benefit of making the collection comprehensive. This work should be honoured too, but a picture contest is the wrong method.