2009/2/17 Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com:

Hello,

I did not even realise it had not been announced and I already voted a few days ago :-) My two cents

• great images. Really top stuff
• but the voting system... SO unpractical :-(

If you voted early, I think the voting system has been improved since then. You should take another look (while logged in!). There is just little buttons and text fields below each image to let you vote and leave a comment, and if you have already voted you get a message "You have already voted for this image". I think it's really great.

I have meant to ask what happened with the toolserver (or the team dealing with the toolserver) so that it could not be used this year ?

Bryan & I ran the comp last year, and were too busy to commit to running it this year. This year I am just a cheerleader. ;) I think it was just difficult communicating all the needed info about galleries, etc, because Bryan wasn't too involved. In future years if Bryan is involved or someone else comfortable with the toolserver that software can be used again, if they want.

Alternatively, if you really want to keep voting pages separately for each image, it would have been easier to vote on a separate page rather than at the bottom of the description page (long to load + generous scrolling of numerous languages description).

I think the voting actually does happen on a separate page, it just has a huge introduction in many languages. :)

A good place to leave comments for the organisers (and future organisers) to see, would be http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_Year/2008.

cheers Brianna