Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-24 Thread Nuno Tavares
Awesome, I didn't know we could that :-) -NT Em 22-06-2012 08:13, Caroline Becker escreveu: I couldn't agree more with Lodewijk. Please have a look to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fa%C3%A7ade_et_parvis_de_l%27%C3%A9glise_Saint-Jacques_d%27Assyrie_(Hauteluce,_Savoie,_France).jpg, it is

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-23 Thread Andre Koopal
I also don't think you should put limits. In NL we have even discussed the other side. The pictures you normally get are the outside pictures of the whole monuments and sometimes some details. What you want as well, certainly from the bigger monuments is a lot more detail pictures, inside and outs

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-23 Thread Platonides
+1 to Lodewijk post. Moreover, some monuments like cathedrals or museums could easily reach the 10 photos limit. But I think the proposal is flawed from the beginning. It comes from the assumption that it would significantly reduce the number of photographs the jurors need to review without a los

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-22 Thread Lodewijk
For the international contest there are only quality prizes - countries are of course free to choose to give a quantity prize. WLM-nl has always done this though - but not for the most photos, but for the person who submitted photos of the most individual monuments. That seems to have worked well,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 06/22/2012 10:09 AM, Lodewijk wrote: This is not the first time this topic has come up - every time it is about throwing up thresholds for photographers because we believe that it increases quality. Actually, we learned that it doesn't. The lower the thresholds, the less restrictions we put on

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-22 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
I agree with Lodewijk about the Philosophy of the contest. But also for a practical reason: how much is 'too much'? Probably for a small statue or house, 10 is more than enough. But there are other monuments that can be much more complicate. In our case, Easter Island as a whole is a national monu

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-22 Thread Caroline Becker
I couldn't agree more with Lodewijk. Please have a look to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fa%C3%A7ade_et_parvis_de_l%27%C3%A9glise_Saint-Jacques_d%27Assyrie_(Hauteluce,_Savoie,_France).jpg, it is a gateway to a hundred pictures of the same church (with notes). This is the kind of awesome th

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Max number of uploads (was: Jury voting)

2012-06-22 Thread Lodewijk
This is not the first time this topic has come up - every time it is about throwing up thresholds for photographers because we believe that it increases quality. Actually, we learned that it doesn't. The lower the thresholds, the less restrictions we put on people, the more submissions we will get.