On 06/22/2012 10:09 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
This is not the first time this topic has come up - every time it is about throwing up thresholds for photographers because we believe that it increases quality. Actually, we learned that it doesn't. The lower the thresholds, the less restrictions we put on people, the more submissions we will get. Please note that we are not *just* caring about that one single perfect shot, but we want people to upload multiple pictures! If they want to upload 100 pictures of a church, who do they hurt other than the jury members? I have been told that many slightly different pictures could in the future even perhaps be used for 3D image generation. But even for now I have more than once searched for a slightly different angle of a photo because I wanted it for a specific purpose. And I can tell you from experience that a jury is very good at ignoring a set of 100 very similar photos. That is much easier than choosing between two good quality photos.
As a member of the jury, I would like the work to be less, as a Wikipedian I would like the images to be of best quality.
But with my photographer hat on, I am strongly against setting a hard limit. If we limit the images to N, then I am sure there is somewhere a monument deserving N+1 pictures.
With this said, I do want to encourage quality over quantity, for example I think is a *bad idea* do advertise a prize for "most images submitted", as it can encourage low quality submissions..