Hi all. I have a couple of requests, directed particularly to the photographers amongst you.

1. Enter photos into the Wiki Loves Monuments competition

As some list subscribers may may know, I'm organizing the Wiki Loves Monuments competition in the UK. Although we have received over 8000 UK entries so far, the majority of those have probably been taken by users who are more interested in Wikipedia than in photography, and we are in need of some more high-quality entries from talented photographers.

If you have any nice photos of UK listed buildings in your portfolio (for example from a previous UK holiday) please could you look them out and submit some entries?

The website is at http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/, and the last date for submissions is midnight UK time on 30th September (next Monday). If you have images taken outside the UK, they can be entered via this page.

2. Help with pre-screening of the competition entries

To avoid overloading the three-person UK jury with 10,000+ images to be judged, I'm looking to recruit around 20-30 volunteers who can help with some pre-screening to eliminate entries that have no prospect of winning one of the top 10 prizes. We have an online jury tool for that purpose, and all you need to do is to click through one day's worth of entries and quickly mark those that the judges don't need to see. No complicated scoring or judging ability is needed - just the ability to separate a potential prizewinner from the obviously lower-quality entries. For consistency, there will be two people independently reviewing each image.

The work involved would be a minimum of one hour, to a maximum of 10, and would need to be done over the next two weeks.

It would be fantastic if a good number of people from these mailing lists could help out. You can enter the competition as well as help with the pre-screening, as you wouldn't be asked to pre-screen your own images.

Thanks for anything you can do. Please email me if you'd like more details.

Regards

Michael