On 03/09/12 16:45, Paul Selitskas wrote:
One of Belarusian contestants addressed me a mail with a question: may they reupload the same photo with a better quality and what consequences will it have concerning WLM.
So, may the participant replace the file uploaded for WLM with the same file of better quality? Will the new file be treated the same as if it was uploaded at the first place?
Besides this, I have a question of my own. Let's say, someone submitted a photo for the contest. Then a random Wikimedian uses it in an article. Then he wants to fix it (colors, perspective, whatever) and actually he does it by replacing the original file with a new fixed version of it. What next? Should the jury examine the original version, or the fixed one? If the photo wins, who takes the prize? And so on.
This was also raised last year. It was mentioned that freeing a bigger version of an existing file should not qualify. Your may decide to do otherwise, of course, but I think it is bet not to, as it would also make harder to create the lists of participating monuments if countries had different rules on what is a new upload.
If the uploader sends a better version of another picture uploaded in WLM, I consider this a valid submission by the author. Quite likely, also, consider for instance someone that uploads the image with a watermark, then he gets notified that there should be no watermarks and he reuploads the unwatermarked file.
Another sample, Indafotó (used last year for most of WLM-HU) lowscales the images to 1600 pixels. Samat contacted the users, which sent him the originals and he reuploaded them. IMHO the submission of the bigger image is perfectly valid.
When someone else fixes the image, that's a different matter. I wouldn't plainly disqualify them if someone eg. fixes the watermark from an image, just like we may add the monument id of some submissions (which would otherwise be uneligible). However, if such image was in the last round, I would do note it to the jury, which should probably take it into account negatively (but even then the photo might still astounishing and win anyway).
Regards