Hello, in Austria we have a two-step jury. The first preselects the pictures to 500 to 1000, the second finds the prize winners. Last year we could only cope with the mass of photographs giving each jury member a part of the photos to preselect alone, without having a four-eye-principle. This year more jury members will have a look at the same photos and sum up their decisions. Therefore they will have to begin early, during September. But as you all know, most of the pictures, taken during September will be upoaded last minute.
So we will be ready with the preselection after 14 days but then have to hand them over to the main jury. They will need one week and one weekend to look to the photos, then meet and make a decision. We cannot instruct them to meet exactly on Sunday 21 October, to meet the requested deadline. So they might meet in the following week and have the prize winners ready on 25 October.
Four weeks will be required without imposing too much stress to the volunteer jury. Best regards Beppo
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Datum: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:01:56 +0200 Von: Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org An: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Deadlines: please check
If we need to expand that, I'm happy (personally) to make adjustments but I'd rather agree on that now than being forced to by juries being late :) So your input is valued. I hope more people will give their opinion on it.
Lodewijk
2012/8/8 Platonides platonides@gmail.com
Last year we had to sprint for having the results at the deadline, and I think that we were not alone (I don't remember the details and I wouldn't like to name countries, either). We spent the first weeks preparing the images and transfering from flickr, and participation overwhelmed us, too. We will adapt to whatever date is agreed, and I'm sure countries from last year will be very alert for avoiding previous pitfalls, but as there are many new countries, I expect the same problems to arise again. How realistic is it, I suspect we will only know on September 30, when counting the provided images. As the international jury has a known pool size of 340 images (albeit a very good set), it may make more sense to give 3 weeks to the international jury and 4 for the local. But we can also keep the current dates and expand them if needed.
Best regards
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