We can summarize the yesterday discussion and Upload-form-demonstration, I think we all agree so far:
An enormously important point for the entire project WLM is the ability to simplify the uploading process for the participants of the photo contest. Basically, this is quiet easy to create, but we must emphasize the following:
1. Before any participation is the registration - the actual situation is not reduceable.
2. To the participants it must be given some specific requirements without choice: That is: "Own work" as well as the predefined license.
3. Thus there remains only that the participants upload his image and the ability, to give a personal description (if desired).
That's all from the perspective of the participant. Our perspective results in further, much more important considerations:
1. We need to identify the images - The easiest way is a country code and the object ID as a minimal setting.
2. To reduce further work from our side, the images should be categorized at the same time while the upload-process takes place, but this requires a good category management, which at least will assume the category-system from Wikipedia to Commons.
3. In addition, we should automatically hand over as much information as possible (or necessary). This is: name of the object, address of the object (district, town name, adress), geographic coordinates, perhaps also an existing short description of inside the monument-tables. But that presupposes the access to the upload-form directly from Wikipedia (cultural monument tables).
4. Images of cultural objects, which are not officially designated cultural monuments (and therefore not included in the lists) can be uploaded via the parish or other articles, thus we need an Community-Code as the ID key, zip code, an the country code as a minimum requirement.
5. We need to clarify that only images can participate in this contest, which are uploaded in September. This can be regulated, so that any upload from the relevant pages with the special upload form is only possible, when this forms are unlocked on september, 1. Only with the upload form the object ID can be transfered.
6. We need to ensure in Commons itself, that any uploading for the competition must be easily visible through a special selection of different forms. This requires a clear indication (banners etc)
All this concerns only one aspect of the complete project, but it is neccessary for the persistent use of the images via Commons, as well as for the assessment by the national judging panels.
That implementation is possible to handover all the information with an link, I demonstrated yesterday. Our task should be to explore the already existing links to the individual objects within Wikipedia and to integrate into the overall concept.
greetings from Vienna
Hubertl