Hello, I'm Mono on the Wikimedia Commons.
I'm helping to organizehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Committee of the Fifth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Yearhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2010. In case you haven't heard about it, it's a contest where the featured pictures selected from 2010 on the Wikimedia Commons are voted upon by the community. Last year, a great deal of users participated, however, the Wikimedia community landscape has changed, as many of our newer editors aren't used to the Commons and haven't ever seen POTY play out. We'd like to see an increase in participation from around our projects.
Because of this, I feel that it would be appropriate to post a global notice for logged-in editors during the competition (there are two rounds; each one lasts about a week) to encourage the broader community to participate. The general consensus is that non-fundraising banners require community consensus, so I'd like to get some feedback.
Finally, I would like to be the first to invite you to participate in the contest...it is expected to occur in early May. Hopefully, you'll see a global notice announcing the start of Round 1. Until then, the contest is looking for help translating several messages into different languages over at the translation pagehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Translations .
Best regards,
Mono
I'm copying here what I sent to Mono privately as well, but also saying this: I'm not sure a semi-final round is necessarily the best use for the Centralnotice tool. Even the Board of Trustees only gets one round advertised...
My comments to Mono: *Mono,
I'm curious about the reasoning for 200 edits requirement to vote.
I get it for Board elections or Arbcom.... those people are electing representatives who effectively legislate on their behalf.
But why, for the best picture, do we have to have a suffrage requirement higher than about 10?
I've had one complaint already. I note one on the contest's talk page.
This seems to be at odds with your stated goal of increasing participation.
pb *
___________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 (office)
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Mono mium monomium@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm Mono on the Wikimedia Commons.
I'm helping to organize< http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Committee%3E of the Fifth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Yearhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2010. In case you haven't heard about it, it's a contest where the featured pictures selected from 2010 on the Wikimedia Commons are voted upon by the community. Last year, a great deal of users participated, however, the Wikimedia community landscape has changed, as many of our newer editors aren't used to the Commons and haven't ever seen POTY play out. We'd like to see an increase in participation from around our projects.
Because of this, I feel that it would be appropriate to post a global notice for logged-in editors during the competition (there are two rounds; each one lasts about a week) to encourage the broader community to participate. The general consensus is that non-fundraising banners require community consensus, so I'd like to get some feedback.
Finally, I would like to be the first to invite you to participate in the contest...it is expected to occur in early May. Hopefully, you'll see a global notice announcing the start of Round 1. Until then, the contest is looking for help translating several messages into different languages over at the translation page< http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Translati...
.
Best regards,
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I'm copying here what I sent to Mono privately as well, but also saying this: I'm not sure a semi-final round is necessarily the best use for the Centralnotice tool. Even the Board of Trustees only gets one round advertised...
My comments to Mono: *Mono,
I'm curious about the reasoning for 200 edits requirement to vote.
I get it for Board elections or Arbcom.... those people are electing representatives who effectively legislate on their behalf.
But why, for the best picture, do we have to have a suffrage requirement higher than about 10?
I've had one complaint already. I note one on the contest's talk page.
This seems to be at odds with your stated goal of increasing participation.
pb
Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 (office)
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Mono mium monomium@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm Mono on the Wikimedia Commons.
I'm helping to organize< http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Committee%3E of the Fifth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Yearhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2010. In case you haven't heard about it, it's a contest where the featured pictures selected from 2010 on the Wikimedia Commons are voted upon by
the
community. Last year, a great deal of users participated, however, the Wikimedia community landscape has changed, as many of our newer editors aren't used to the Commons and haven't ever seen POTY play out. We'd like to see an increase in participation from around our projects.
Because of this, I feel that it would be appropriate to post a global notice for logged-in editors during the competition (there are two rounds; each one lasts about a week) to encourage the broader community to participate.
The
general consensus is that non-fundraising banners require community consensus, so I'd like to get some feedback.
Finally, I would like to be the first to invite you to participate in the contest...it is expected to occur in early May. Hopefully, you'll see a global notice announcing the start of Round 1. Until then, the contest is looking for help translating several messages into different languages
over
at the translation page<
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Translati...
.
Best regards,
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Since Phillipe posted his message to me, I suppose I should post my message to him.
Hello Phillipe,
The voting rules are very similar to last year's rules. I believe the goal
is and was to ensure that the voters were part of the Wikimedia community and knew a little about our FP process. I agree that this might be a little steep, but there are a great deal of active editors across all projects with more than 200 edits. It's likely a good portion of them might not participate...in general, this is a Wikimedia community activity, where the target audience is the Wikimedia community.
Mono
In reply to
I'm not sure a semi-final round is necessarily the best use for the Centralnotice tool. Even the Board of Trustees only gets one round advertised...
the stewards election had a global notice for nominations. Additionally, judging from 2009, Round 2 voters either voted in Round 1 or saw Round 1 and missed the deadline to vote.
Mono
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