On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Nick Roux <nick(a)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!
> 3) 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.
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David Richfield
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