2011/12/12 Strainu <strainu10@gmail.com>
2011/12/12 Jan Ainali <jan.ainali@wikimedia.se>:
> 2011/12/12 Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl>
>>
>> > 2011/12/12 Yaroslav M. Blanter<putevod@mccme.ru>:
>> >> I think this is a good direction, but I can not support the proposal in
>> >> this form. What if we have just one crappy image? What if we have the
>> >> image
>> >> of the exterior, would we need the image of the interior? What if we
>> >> have
>> >> several monuments under one code?
>>
>> Let's put it a bit stronger. I would never support such a proposal. I
>> support positive steering ("we encourage you to upload photo's of
>> monuments that not yet have a (good) picture"), not negative steering
>> ("WLM2011 we limit the eligible monuments to those without an image").

Then you're bound to encounter the same kind of criticism as this year.

> Yes, I agree that positive steering is better. We could have one of the
> judging criteria to be uniqueness or value adding, and explain that when
> images are similar in other criterias, the ones that bring in new aspects to
> Commons will be regarded higher.

What you want (and what people are saying on these pages) is a Commons
contest, not a photo contest.

Yes, you are right, I do want a Commons contest. If I wanted a photo contest I would support the Metro challenge (or any arbitrary contest) instead. I would rather see 10 000 only fairly decent pictures of previously not documented cultural heritage sites than 10 000 featured pictures of the well documented ones. If that means we cannot have a jury of professional photographers, so be it, they are just a mean, not the purpose.

/Jan