While making it as easy as possible for the jury,
let's not forget the
purpose of the contest, to get educational pictures of as many monuments as
possible. There need to be an incentive for photographers to not
be satisfied with just uploading their best image. Uploading with metadata
is a pain, and if they are not entering the contest the risk is that we
will miss out of some educational pictures that may not be the prettiest.
The contest is our carrot to make people upload, and if the carrot is
smaller not all will chase for it.
I think Racso is on to something though, by limiting it to a certain
number per monument. The limit must be higher than one, eg. for a church
the interior is at least as interesting as the exterior for one thing and
while the photographer thinks one of them has better chance to win, maybe
the other is of most value to the projects. Perhaps ten is enough, that
could make those photographers that upload hundreds of picture of each
monument less overwhelming. Can we do such a limitation technically, or do
we make it as a strong recommendation to the contestants or solve it
in another way?
--
Best
Jan Ainali
Chairman, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
2012/6/22 Nicu Buculei <nicubunu(a)gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Peter Ekman
wrote:
It seems to me that you can't possibly give a
jury a 1,000 photos and
expect
them to come up with anything reasonable. That
type of system would
also
drive away quality jurors - the best jurors
simply wouldn't have time
for
all that. And if we're talking about 10,000
photos, it just gets worse.
There has to be some sort of pre-screening, whether we like it or not.
A jury put in front of 1000 or more photos would have a difficult job,
but with a pre-screening you can get to a few hundreds of images and a
reasonable amount of work.
A couple of suggestions for pre-screening:
1. Let the photographer decide which of his photos is best - say 1 for
the
entire contest or 1 for each day he/she uploads.
2. Have a contest each day, with a each photographer who uploaded that
day
nominating a single photo, and letting the
community vote (I'd say +1
for
each photo you like) then after a few days a
selected screener from the
community selects 2 or 3 photos from the group that has the highest
score.
After 30 days, you'd have 60-90 photos that
the jury can deal with,
each
photog would have had the chance to nominate his
best photos (multiple
times), the community would have their say, and the screeners would not
have
to deal with 1,000s of photos.
Something like that would require a large organizational effort and a
large community, which is not the case for most of the participating
countries. Small teams and small communities will have to "Keep It
Simple and Stupid". [1]
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
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nicu ::
http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/
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