On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Platonides
<
platonides@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 03/09/12 16:45, Paul Selitskas wrote:
>> One of Belarusian contestants addressed me a
mail with a question: may
>> they reupload the same photo with a better
quality and what
>> consequences will it have concerning WLM.
>>
>> So, may the participant replace the file
uploaded for WLM with the
>> same file of better quality? Will the new file
be treated the same as
>> if it was uploaded at the first place?
>>
>> Besides this, I have a question of my own.
Let's say, someone
>> submitted a photo for the contest. Then a
random Wikimedian uses it in
>> an article. Then he wants to fix it (colors,
perspective, whatever)
>> and actually he does it by replacing the
original file with a new
>> fixed version of it. What next? Should the jury
examine the original
>> version, or the fixed one? If the photo wins,
who takes the prize? And
>> so on.
>
> This was also raised last year. It was mentioned
that freeing a bigger
> version of an existing file should not qualify.
Your may decide to do
> otherwise, of course, but I think it is bet not to,
as it would also
> make harder to create the lists of participating
monuments if countries
> had different rules on what is a new upload.
>
> If the uploader sends a better version of another
picture uploaded in
> WLM, I consider this a valid submission by the
author. Quite likely,
> also, consider for instance someone that uploads
the image with a
> watermark, then he gets notified that there should
be no watermarks and
> he reuploads the unwatermarked file.
>
> Another sample, Indafotó (used last year for most
of WLM-HU) lowscales
> the images to 1600 pixels. Samat contacted the
users, which sent him the
> originals and he reuploaded them. IMHO the
submission of the bigger
> image is perfectly valid.
>
> When someone else fixes the image, that's a
different matter. I wouldn't
> plainly disqualify them if someone eg. fixes the
watermark from an
> image, just like we may add the monument id of some
submissions (which
> would otherwise be uneligible). However, if such
image was in the last
> round, I would do note it to the jury, which should
probably take it
> into account negatively (but even then the photo
might still
> astounishing and win anyway).
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
>
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