I think the point is: maybe it would also have advantages for other countries to do the contest in different times, duration, etc., but we decided as a group to have it simultaneously for logistic, promotional and fairness reasons.
Perhaps Commons will get more and better pictures from Switzerland, but we need to take into account the bias that this will introduce to the European contest, as Swiss participants will have more time to upload photos if photos from all three months are entered.

Best,
Gonçalo

2011/7/5 Charles Andrès <charles.andres@wikimedia.ch>
I just want to make some point clear:
*WMCH support the european WLM contest and will help every chapter needing us
*the format of the swiss contest need to be on a 3 summer month basis because:
**weather could be howfull in september in lot of region of switzerland, other wmch member have fun of me because I can't see the sky because of the fog!  :-)
**we are building interaction with cantonal institutions in charge of swiss heritage, if we succeed  in our goal of covering 50% of the 4800 target monuments, the 2012 edition will be a full collaboration with all of this cantonal institutions
**the wlm contest is part of the TAO project with the colaboration with seniroweb.ch, this include the organisation of local event as organised travel in region with a photgraphic "safari" folowed by workso to explain the uploading process. For this type of event we need time, we can't do it in one month, or it will be only for elderly people that are already confident with pictures and internet


Sincerely

Charles



Le 5 juil. 2011 à 17:22, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli@gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I must say that I am very unhappy about this phrase: "... the Swiss
>> contest will have place in September because someone in Berlin has
>> decided differently".
>>
>
> This is not what I think, but this is the justification to give to
> some important partners and to the organization.
>
> Do you have a different one? Another different from: "... the Swiss
> contest will have place in September because *we* have decided
> differently".
>
> Ilario
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