Hi Peter,
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Peter Ekman pdekman@gmail.com wrote:
- Let the photographer decide which of his photos is best - say 1 for the
entire contest or 1 for each day he/she uploads.
I strongly oppose this idea. From my experience last year, this will ruin much of the fun. Almost every winner I spoke told me that if he or she had been given the possibility to choose which of their pictures went into the contest, they wouldn't have selected a single one or at least not the one that actually got a prize. Many really great pictures wouldn't have made it (in Germany, many top 10 pictures would be missing). That's especially true for new contributors.
Technically a competition with this kind of preselection wouldn't be a big photo competition anymore but rather a pretty small one. (And if you don't want your photo to be judged, you can just upload it to Commons without the templates).
- Have a contest each day, with a each photographer who uploaded that day
nominating a single photo, and letting the community vote (I'd say +1 for each photo you like) then after a few days a selected screener from the community selects 2 or 3 photos from the group that has the highest score. After 30 days, you'd have 60-90 photos that the jury can deal with, each photog would have had the chance to nominate his best photos (multiple times), the community would have their say, and the screeners would not have to deal with 1,000s of photos.
I believe that's much too difficult and time consuming. As a new contributor, I might come across the site notice, look up some monuments, take some pictures during my sunday afternoon walk and upload them on monday. That'll be difficult enough, I certainly don't want to participate in a voting schedule.
When you have a bunch of people in charge of the pre-selection process (last year, we had 7 jury members select from roughly 4000 pictures each, which was a bit too much, though), it's doable and doesn't take too much time. Have 20 to 30 community members take a look at 1/20th to 1/30th of all uploaded pictures (It's useful to not have them judge a day each because of the batches of similar pictures) and narrow it down to 20-30 pictures each. Then you bring in the actual jury.
Regards,
Kilian