2012/1/16 Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.com:
I don't like the winners in 2011. They are nice pictures, but they tell little about the monuments. I want institutions to use the pictures and to give pictures to commons. If we have something unik that will be easier to do. I am in the moment talking to 2 parts about cooperation in GLAM-work and want usefull pictures not only the nice ones. As trained in building-protection I see a great opertunity to have pictures documenting monuments in many countries and want people to think about this in 2012.
Indeed, as I am generally against forsing anything on local juries - I would seriously reconsider the way that interational jury will work. IMHO 2011 international jury was mainly focused on "wow factor" and not enough on the documentary usefullnes and technical quality of the picture. I would suggest to do in 2012 in such a way: a) local juries choose pictures for international nomination as they wish b) picture nominated must go normal judgement for quality pictures on Commons and only those which get the quality picture status can be considered by jury http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images_candidates c) international jury chooses winners from the b) set of pictures - not from a)
It should be announced before contest, so there will be up to local juries if they are about to send pictures to b) before their nomination or just take a risk and let do it international jury.