[Foundation-l] Picture of the Year 2010 global notice and translation

[Philippe Beaudette]

I'm copying here what I sent to Mono privately as well, but also saying
this:  I'm not sure a semi-final round is necessarily the best use for the
Centralnotice tool.  Even the Board of Trustees only gets one round
advertised...

My comments to Mono:
*Mono,

I'm curious about the reasoning for 200 edits requirement to vote.

I get it for Board elections or Arbcom.... those people are electing
representatives who effectively legislate on their behalf.

But why, for the best picture, do we have to have a suffrage requirement
higher than about 10?

I've had one complaint already.  I note one on the contest's talk page.

This seems to be at odds with your stated goal of increasing participation.

pb
*

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Mono mium <monomium at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I'm Mono on the Wikimedia Commons.
>
>
>  I'm helping to
> organize<
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Committee>
> of
> the Fifth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the
> Year<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2010>.
> In case you haven't heard about it, it's a contest where the featured
> pictures selected from 2010 on the Wikimedia Commons are voted upon by the
> community. Last year, a great deal of users participated, however, the
> Wikimedia community landscape has changed, as many of our newer editors
> aren't used to the Commons and haven't ever seen POTY play out. We'd like
> to
> see an increase in participation from around our projects.
>
> Because of this, I feel that it would be appropriate to post a global
> notice
> for logged-in editors during the competition (there are two rounds; each
> one
> lasts about a week) to encourage the broader community to participate. The
> general consensus is that non-fundraising banners require community
> consensus, so I'd like to get some feedback.
>
> Finally, I would like to be the first to invite you to participate in the
> contest...it is expected to occur in early May. Hopefully, you'll see a
> global notice announcing the start of Round 1. Until then, the contest is
> looking for help translating several messages into different languages over
> at the translation
> page<
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Translations
> >
> .
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mono
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