Hi All,
I have contacted 18 users (from 20 winning photos) since 13:57, 23
October 2013 (UTC) via their commons talk pages. There are currently
only 10 replies and I am worried that I would not be able to
distribute the prizes (and trophies which are yet to be made)
efficiently and fairly.
Do you have any suggestions, experiences or comments to share?
Many thanks,
Taweethaも
on behalf of WLM-TH
Hi, Ukrainian organizing committe has trouble with one winner.
In 2012 the chapter board set rules for Ukrainian part of the competition,
which contains a point that organizing committe members, jury and their
family members (I don't know how to translate precisely, and the correct
word matters here) cannot take part in the competition. According to our
rules places are determined by jury but organizing committee can disqualify
works.
This year we found out only after final jury round that second place is
authored by one of jury member's father an his wife. While we have no
direct objections that this choice was unfair or biased, we thougth that it
would be difficult to understand by other people and may harm the contest
reputation. We decided not give the prize from the chapter but to present
this photo among 10 best to international competition and say that it was
seconf by jury decision but authors were not given prizes due to violation
of the rules as the organizing committe decided.
Now the authors of this photo ask us questions
1) There is no prohibition in the international rules for jury members'
family. Does our chapter have a right to add additional criterias?
2) Can a father be qualified as a family member? Is this a good criteria?
3) Is this ok for organizing committee to override jury decision in this
case?
Oranizing committe, the winner and jury member in question are in copy.
Thank you,
Illia
Hi,
One of the users is asking if they still can upload a new version of
their photo (with some color/contrast adjustment). Can they?
Vacio
On 11/03/13 04:41 , Lodewijk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks everyone for your hard work! I know that in some countries it
> was even harder than in most, but I'm proud you all managed to send in
> some nominations. We have received in total 503 nominations from 51
> competitions (52 countries).
>
> Minor request: it seems the tool can't handle well files being moved.
> I would appreciate it if we could somehow not move the files during
> the judging process :) I know there's no perfection possible here
> since not all nominees are known, but keep an eye out please.
>
> A few more requests:
> * Please help make sure all nominees fit the criteria. Most
> specifically, the 'is an identified monument' criterium is not always
> followed. Meaning, that not all photos that won a competition, have
> the monument clearly identified with its identifier. This you can help
> with, by going through the published winning photos and tagging them.
> * Please create & fill a category with the nominated pictures.
> Probably we want to create a template for this again like last year.
> * If someone could set up a thankyou template that can be delivered to
> the nominated authors, that would be awesome too.
>
> The jury just started its first round - no more changes are possible
> to the nominees.
> I expect outcomes of the jury process by the end of November. We will
> publish them around 10 December - giving us time to contact the
> winners, prepare a press release and jury report. We will also get in
> touch with the 'winning chapters' a few days before the release.
>
> Thanks all for making it possible that an amazing number of awesome
> photos have been uploaded,
>
> Lodewijk
>
>
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Hi all,
thanks everyone for your hard work! I know that in some countries it was
even harder than in most, but I'm proud you all managed to send in some
nominations. We have received in total 503 nominations from 51 competitions
(52 countries).
Minor request: it seems the tool can't handle well files being moved. I
would appreciate it if we could somehow not move the files during the
judging process :) I know there's no perfection possible here since not all
nominees are known, but keep an eye out please.
A few more requests:
* Please help make sure all nominees fit the criteria. Most specifically,
the 'is an identified monument' criterium is not always followed. Meaning,
that not all photos that won a competition, have the monument clearly
identified with its identifier. This you can help with, by going through
the published winning photos and tagging them.
* Please create & fill a category with the nominated pictures. Probably we
want to create a template for this again like last year.
* If someone could set up a thankyou template that can be delivered to the
nominated authors, that would be awesome too.
The jury just started its first round - no more changes are possible to the
nominees.
I expect outcomes of the jury process by the end of November. We will
publish them around 10 December - giving us time to contact the winners,
prepare a press release and jury report. We will also get in touch with the
'winning chapters' a few days before the release.
Thanks all for making it possible that an amazing number of awesome photos
have been uploaded,
Lodewijk
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