On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Racso wrote:
- I agree with Peter. There should be a reasonable limit for uploads; If
there is not, each participant will be free to take dozens of photos of the same monument and upload them all to see if any of them is lucky! The limit must be put with caution, however, as we won't like to lose valuable photos. Here, in Colombia, we are considering to put a limit of 10 (maybe even 5) photos per monument per participant. That way, each participant still can send "unlimited" photos, but they would have to be of different monuments.
Last year in my country we had one user submitting like this, *a lot* of pictures, sometime over 60, for the same monument, with some of them almost identical, not adding anything new. I think this was useless, but respected his will to put into the commons every little detail (he's also an article contributor to Wikipedia, so he may want to cover special things).
I personally do not want to limit in any way the contributions, if people want to donate, let them do it. But they should not expect a prize for that, I want to reward quality more than quantity.
This year for some monuments I plan to send myself up to 10 different pictures, since some are big and deserve it (but my photos won't enter the contest, I am an organizer and a member of the local jury).
- However, I think that even 4000 is a reasonable number for a jury IF some
kind of supporting system (like the ones mentioned before) is used.
We had close to 6000 images and judging was NOT a pain.
- Be careful when involving "the community" for selecting, as we don't want
to transform this into a popularity contest. Extreme case: people giving 10 to their friends photos, and 1 to everything else.
This is not democracy, is meritocracy. With popular vote you may end with the *good* images out of the selection, just look at how such contests happen on facebook where the contestants "fight" with their "friends" numbers and getting "likes". I prefer a jury who understand what a photo is and what a historical monument is.
- Comment: check Worth 1000's voting karma
system: http://all.worth1000.com/faq#voting. Something like that could be implemented when designing open-voting systems.