But what is the intest of such a rule?
Keeping the attention to a high level? No problem, we make our own advertisment in local press, the running of the contest in switzerland during summer has no impact on what happen in other country, and in september we will adapt our communication to fit to the european envergure of the contest.
Tagging of the pictures? No problem, we already tag our own pictures.
Selection of the pictures? We make the selection, so it has no impact on other countries. Only september upload files are eligible? Ok just change the rules "pictures uplaod during national contest are eligible" and it is fixed.
For me the statement that we don't change the date, just because it has been decide like this in Berlin, is more because no strong argument has been given to support this "september only" rule. IMHO the important thing is that the contest end in every country at the same date, this is important for the communication impact, like this we can comunicate in each of the country that is an european event.
We don't know how the organisation is going on in each of your country, I could imagine that for some of you it is better to focus on only one month, but it is definitively not the case for us, it is even totaly the oposite, we have absolutely no interest to run a contest during a simple month.
Since the beggining we planned this contest on a three month base, we really don't see how it could negatively impact how the contest is running in other country, you really think that your national Media will cover the swiss contest?
Charles
Le 5 juil. 2011 à 14:55, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com a écrit :
Hello,
When Lodewijk talked about "a misunderstanding", he wanted to build a bridge to return to the rules we have agreed on, not to provide an excuse for not following them.
I must say that I am very unhappy about this phrase: "... the Swiss contest will have place in September because someone in Berlin has decided differently".
Among Wikimedia national organizations, we do not follow orders from Berlin or Bern or from somewhere else.
What we do is talking with each other and come to an agreement. The participating national organizations might decide - together or in their majority - that if some basic principles are not met, then this has negative consequences. For example not letting CH photos participate in the European jury contest. I don't say that that will necessarily happen, but it is a possibility.
Having this said, I am still open to arguments why (maybe in future) a photo contest in months other than September might make sense. But I think that international agreements should be respected, and that phrases such as "someone in Berlin has decided differently" do not contribute to a good athmosphere among Wikimedia national organizations.
Kind regards Ziko
2011/7/5 Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com:
OK, so the problem is different than I thought, with the photos uploaded in July and August falling outside the Euro-wide competition. I am a bit unclear how these foto's can be catagorized for the Swiss jury in September to handle. As far as I know, the upload form for Wiki Loves Monuments will only work in September, right? (just tested the upload form for a RM and no worries, it's just the basic upload without a monument prompt) I see no negative impact for the rest of Europe, just a bigger job for CH. Jane
2011/7/5 Ludovic Péron ludovic.peron@gmail.com
Yes. We make the swiss contest during july, august and september.
Ludovic
2011/7/5 Bas vb bas_v_b@hotmail.com
Don't they do the contest in juli, august and september? Mvg, Bas
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:01:47 +0200 From: jane023@gmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM in Switzerland
Hi all, This is unfortunate news since it does add confusion to the mix. I do see the problem with the communication deadlines in May however, and I sympathize with all those who have done their best to coordinate these efforts despite the deadlines. As far as impact goes, I guess the only real negative impact is for Swiss particpants reading the central website and assuming they can upload pictures of Swiss monuments in September that will be part of the European contest. They are of course welcome to upload photos of Swiss monuments in September, but they obviously won't be judged since there's no national jury, and therefore don't really "participate". Technically I see no problem with having such photos (since there will be no publicity in Switzerland for the September timeframe this will presumeably be a small number of photos) tagged with the "Wiki Loves Monuments" upload form in September, since no one working in the contest will look at them anyway (unless someone from Wikimedia CH wants to). Besides the confusion, there is no substantial negative impact is there? Do we need to remove Switzerland from our central website or add some qualifier there about this? Jane
2011/7/4 Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@googlemail.com
Hello folks,
I understand Maarten's feelings, considering what he has done for WLM so far.
On the other hand, in the Wikimedia world we have a strong ethos of leaving the operative business to the Wikimedia national organisations, because they might know best what is best in their country. I am not sure where to find the right balance here.
What is the exact negative impact on WLM Europe because of the different decisions in CH?
It seems that we will have in future to work with tighter agreements, a covenant to make sure that we all agree on the basic principles.
Kind regards Ziko
2011/7/4 Elisardo elisardojm@gmail.com:
Yes, it's a bad news...
Elisardojm
2011/7/4 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl
Hi everyone,
To my regret WMCH decided to ignore the things we agreed on in Berlin [1] and started with Wiki Loves Monuments early [2]. I consider this very disrespectful and I'm really pissed off about this. WMCH wasn't able to come to the Berlin meeting but received all results. We talked about this earlier [3], but WMCH failed to respond to the last emails and instead apparently just started.
I am really unhappy with this situation.
Maarten
[1]
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monum... [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Selected_for_WLM_2011_CH [3]
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