Hi,
the rationale is the date when we want the final results to be in. We want to be able to send out the calendars by mid December - that means we need a design- and production cycle before that. Our estimate is that we need to start that by November 20. That also gives us a nice time frame to announce the results officially after collecting more info about the actual winners.
My estimate is that the international jury needs 3-4 weeks to come to a result based on all these high quality images from all these different cultures. Hence that we came to October 21, which leaves a few days leeway.
If it is totally unrealistic, we will have to put it later - but from our point of view the 21 would definitely fit in best. That leaves 3 weeks for your national jury to come to a result. Last year I think only one country didn't make the deadline of October 31, and that was because one specific judge didn't reply (and that combined with, as I understood it, nobody chasing the process at the first weeks).
Best, Lodewijk
2012/8/8 Platonides platonides@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to repeat the deadlines from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline
once again, and would like to hear it very soon if one of the deadlines
is
not realistic for you, or if you have good reasons to change it.
Especially
the October 21 deadline is important. With that information, we will set
the
final deadlines on Saturday.
- October 21: Deadline for submitting the 10 nominations for the
international contest. This can be a private submission (with delayed publishing) and they do not have to be ordered. Being late for this
deadline
might result in having no nominations in the international contest - so
make
sure this is a realistic deadline for you.
Last year the deadline was on October 31, and several countries had problems to get the results by that date. I don't think this year it will be less problematic. What was the rationale for cutting down the date? I wouldn't have moved it.
Regards
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