Hi Yaroslav and others,
I'm sorry that we are going through these current events. As a WLM organizer, I feel the pain of organizing a contest, encouraging people to participate, but then seeing or imagining their disappointment. The one thing that gives the most motivation to me is to see people succeed in doing the upload, not to see them fail. From what I read at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_of_User:Лавров95_2#Comment_from_the_WLM_organizers I also see some of the difficulties that the Commons community are facing. This is not a pleasant situation for anyone. We are all in this for helping people share in the sum of all knowledge. At the moment, we are distracted.
We are seeing a failure of potentially more than one part of our system. As a team of people working towards the same goal, we should investigate what has happened from the beginning to the end, understand what has gone wrong and where (no blaming of each other, simply understanding), and come up with processes for fixing the broken parts. This will help us not have to visit a similar problem again and move forward together and more efficiently.
I will reach out to some of you involved in this discussion off-list to start a (postmortem) discussion. In the mean time, I ask all of you to consider the other side and treat each other with humility, trust, and respect.
Best,
Leila