[Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Ryan Kaldari rkaldari at wikimedia.org
Mon May 16 07:08:49 UTC 2011


The place where the debates occur is
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates. After
an image is promoted from there, anyone can put it on the Main Page at any
time (as explained by Huib). I think having more people involved in the FPC
process would be great.

Ryan Kaldari

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Phoebe,
>
> Its not discussed..
>
> The process is very simple. You add a picture for Featured pictures<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures>if it makes the vote and become featured picture you or anybody can just add
> it to be a POTD there is no process there anymore. Just add and wait.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_day/Instructions
>
> Best,
>
> Huib
> *
> *
> 2011/5/16 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
>
>> Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at ...> writes:
>> > Many of us are annoyed by such featuring.
>>
>> I also had a face-palm moment when I saw this image -- mostly because, out
>> of
>> all of the tens of thousands of superb illustrations and photographs we
>> have,
>> this is the best we can do?
>>
>> This piece does not seem to be educational in nature (and I don't mean "an
>> education in how to use Inkscape"), and it is fairly poor art in all ways
>> except
>> technical proficiency with the tools used to create it. I think it would
>> be more
>> appreciated and more appropriate on one of the many sites designed for
>> hosting
>> amateur art; and we would do a better job of fulfilling our own particular
>> mission by highlighting some of the unquestionably stunning and important
>> works
>> of art in our collection, of which there are many (for instance, we have
>> paintings by Dürer and Cezanne that aren't yet featured).
>>
>>
>> > Or perhaps, getting more people involved on the community selection
>> process.
>>
>> This seems like a good plan. But I have a question for Commonistas:
>> where? I was looking for the page where the "picture of the day" is
>> discussed
>> and chosen, and I can't find it. Can someone explain how this process
>> works?
>>
>> best,
>> Phoebe
>>
>>
>>
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>
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