Hi,
please don't forget to add the winning pictures (with short descriptions) to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners#Kenya:)
Then we'll also spend a blog post on it!
Lodewijk
2012/10/31 Limoke Oscar oslimoke@gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
As we all know, Kenya participated in the Wiki Loves Monuments Contest that concluded recently. We had 97 images uploaded to Commons of Kenyan Monuments cutting across Kenya's diverse geography. Surprising to all of us, we had images from as far as Nyeri and Mombasa
A jury of 3 was selected to help judge the images that would participate in the International Contest. The Jury was Diverse and had consisted of memvsr from: Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Ghana(Unchapter) and Wikimedia Kenya.
The judging criteria involved each member of the Jury selecting his/her top 10 best images . After which each member was then allowed to score each image he/she had selected with 10points for best image and 1 point for the least. The points across all the images were then summed and the final score for each image used to select the final images . Incase of a tie in points, the image that was voted by the most number of Jury members was given a higher weight and so forth.
Here are the Top 10 Images that would compete in the International Contest: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOMO_KENYATTA.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATION_CENTRE.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_National_monument.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATIONAL_MONUMENT_1.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SILVER-_JUBILEE.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Towers.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10years_Nyayo_era.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSSF_Building,_Nairobi.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FREEDOM_HEROES_-.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_forest.JPG
Next Steps:
- First is to Congratulate everyone who prticipated in the Challenge
either through helping iwth the ourgainization ir as a participant.
- Since we could not ask for a budget for National Winners, we would
be trying to solicit for consolation prizes to award to all the Top Images from Friendly Chapters of The Foundation
- To reach out to all the participants(especially out of Nairobi) who
will be key to our scaling of our projects across the country bearing in mInd that most od us hail in Nairobi
- Encouraged by the small success of this, we hope to make a
better budget and preparations foe next years WLM
Once again, congratulations to all
-- Regards,
Limoke Oscar, Dream.Believe.Become....a world of endless oportunities