While some valid points have been raised in these discussions, there was also a lot of bullshit (pardon my language, but there is no other way of putting it) from some people who can't look beyond the current project. It would be unfair from me to respond to those here, but I will most certainly respond onwiki as time allows.
What I do note as something that could easily be avoided is having "ten more crappy images of the Eiffel Tower" in order to get some more obscure monuments on-wiki. I strongly suggest that in countries that participate in WLM2011 we limit the eligible monuments to those without an image.
In order to do this, we need better tools. I'm currently working on a robot that can fill the lists automatically based on the articles that contain a specific monument-id, and also searches for mistakes in the lists. I certaily hope I'll be able to make it work for other countries and I also hope that Nuno, Maarten, Platonides and the rest of the folks that gave us those great reporting tools will also find the time to develop tools for improving the usage of the newly uploaded pictures.
Strainu
2011/12/12 Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com:
I have had the same issue with the Best Photo of Kosovo contest, but we had some small winners. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContest mike
2011/12/12 Tomasz Kozłowski odder.wiki@gmail.com:
In chronological order: #1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011#Quality #2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Anh%C3%A4user_Mauer.jpg #3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:M%C4%83n%C4%83stirea_Chiajna_-_Giule%C8%99ti.jpg
:-(
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