Hi all,
I've added our winning pictures at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners#South_Af... .
I don't have time to complete the job, though:
1) Do we have a list of finalists? 2) Check out http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Winners_of_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2... - what categories should we create? One for winers, one for runners-up? 3) We should probably nominate them as "quality images" (like "good article, but for pictures"). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
David,
We definitely should nominate 10 photos for the international finals. I would suggest the 3 National winners, the 3 Western Cape winners and 4 more.
Criteria for quality images are very strict. Possibly one or two of the competition photos will pass that selection, but I doubt overall the image quality was not all that good. I would however suggest that we submit some for Values Images and Featured Pictures. They still need to be technically good photos, but quality criteria is lower as these focus more of the image subject and content.
There was definitely a couple of WOW photos entered during the competition that will be perfect for Featured Pictures.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Valued_images http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FPC
Nick
On Friday, 16 November 2012 06:02:09 David Richfield wrote:
Hi all,
I've added our winning pictures at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners#South_Af rica .
I don't have time to complete the job, though:
- Do we have a list of finalists?
- Check out
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Winners_of_Wiki_Loves_Monuments_ 2012_in_Germany - what categories should we create? One for winers, one for runners-up? 3) We should probably nominate them as "quality images" (like "good article, but for pictures"). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Nick Roux nick@roux.co.za wrote:
David,
We definitely should nominate 10 photos for the international finals. I would suggest the 3 National winners, the 3 Western Cape winners and 4 more.
Good plan!
- We should probably nominate them as "quality images" (like "good
article, but for pictures"). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images
Criteria for quality images are very strict. Possibly one or two of the competition photos will pass that selection, but I doubt overall the image quality was not all that good. I would however suggest that we submit some for Values Images and Featured Pictures. They still need to be technically good photos, but quality criteria is lower as these focus more of the image subject and content.
Here's a quote from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Quality_images
"Quality images are diagrams or photographs which meet certain quality standards (which are mostly technical in nature) and which are valuable for Wikimedia projects. Unlike featured pictures, quality images must be the work of Commons contributors; they need not be extraordinary or outstanding, but merely well-composed and generally well-executed."
That doesn't sound terribly strict to me. I know we won't have many or any that will make Featured Picture status - that's more like Featured Article than Good Article.
There was definitely a couple of WOW photos entered during the competition that will be perfect for Featured Pictures.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Valued_images http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FPC
Sure, I guess it's worth a shot.
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
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