Hi all,
Now that we are brainstorming about the future of the contest, the best advice WLM-PA can give you all is to forget about Flickr at all for future contests. Our experience with moving photos from the Flickr group to Commons using Flickrripper was terrible, all because of a bug in the service API[0], for which none of the affected people has received an answer from the API developers so far. If you add to that the fact that after several years Flickr has not yet implemented search by hash and issues with nominating imported photos as quality images[1], when it comes down to WLM, Flickr is just a trash can where to put photos for additional complications.
I would like to read about alternatives, because we in Panama are definitely not going to do anything Flickr related next year.
David E. Narvaez
[0] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-flickr/message/7809 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons