I think we could turn this to our benefit - the Metro papers are always looking for relatively light content with pretty colour pictures, which is why they're running this contest.
If we contact them and offer an interesting news story about the world's *other* largest photo contest, complete with lots of images either from this year or last year, they might well report on it fairly widely, as it gives them the opportunity to publicise their own whilst also filling some space...
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On 4 September 2013 16:41, Peter Ekman pdekman@gmail.com wrote:
My first reaction to the Metro contest is that they have an awesome "jury tool". Check it out - maybe we could try for something like this for next year.
2nd - They have a claim to be the "World's largest" however tentative, and we have a better claim. We could ask them to cease and desist making the claim, but they would likely just ignore us, and there's nothing we could do about it.
A possibility would be some sort of cooperation for next year with Metro, i.e. their very large readership could contribute to WLM. With our limited (but extensive) lists, that would likely be very difficult for them, but maybe with a different competition on our part something could be done, e.g. "Wiki Loves Your Hometown"
Pete User:Smallbones
On 4 September 2013 09:19, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Does someone know this challenge? I saw it quite prominently advertised
on
Metro this Monday. «The Metro Photo Challenge, the world’s biggest photography competition, officially launched on Tuesday», «2013 will mark the
seventh
Metro Photo Challenge [...] we’re going to ask you to capture more of a process than a thing [...] sensing the world around you». <http://www.metro.us/newyork/**news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-** your-senses-enter-the-2013-**metro-photo-challenge/<
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/09/02/what-inspires-your-senses-enter-...
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