Hi Ilario,

if you are so hard on such a rule, I think it would have been fair to tell from the beginning of the contest that you will not allow alternative platforms (because that is basically what you're saying). The interpretation I would give to this rule, is that /on the platform you uploaded/ you need to have your email address confirmed. That scales well, and works in the current situation too. 

I know you don't like the 123POI upload platform very much, but at the very least we shouldn't let the users who used it suffer from that. 

Best, 
Lodewijk

2012/10/3 Ilario Valdelli <valdelli@gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org> wrote:
> Hi Ilario,
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you're meaning. The whole point of the e-mail
> requirement (we never said they had to be identified *by an email*) was that
> we are able to contact them. Turning their email functionality on at
> Wikimedia Commons and/or Flickr would be sufficient. Since 123POI is
> basically a similar platform as Flickr, it would be just as fine to confirm
> your email address there. The reason of this rule wasn't to exclude people,
> but to put the burden of providing contact information on the participant -
> so that if they have turned email off - we can simply ignore them if we
> want.
>
> Lodewijk
>

Absolutely, anyway the regulation of Wikimedia Ch says:

"Afin d’être contacté, le participant aura renseigné son adresse de
courriel dans ses préférences sur le site Wikimedia Commons"

It means that, if there was an email in Commons, the user would be
accepted. The regulation has been published some days after the start
of the contest so we may be "flexible", so it means that there should
be at least a link to the user in another portal and we can spent some
time to contact him, but *at least* the email in Commons or everywhere
is a *must* to don't be excluded.

It's important, in my opinion to do it respectful of some other
participants who followed the regulation.

--
Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH
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Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
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