Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist

2012-10-05 Thread Lodewijk
. But this is an option to discuss for next year. Vicenç Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 03:19:32 +0200 From: polime...@gmail.com To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist Dura lex, sed lex - but I would like to avoid such situations. This guy

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist

2012-10-05 Thread Ilario Valdelli
In my opinion it would be good to understand the behaviour. The 30 September was Sunday and probaly someone was out to take pictures, afterwards he tried to upload them and the upload was slow. In my opinion it would be good to understand if this person has started to upload at 11:55pm or this

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist

2012-10-05 Thread Platonides
On 05/10/12 20:46, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2012/10/5 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: We should clarify the deadline rules next year, and make clear that there will be a bot with an axe for any image whose upload wasn't finished before midnight. (LoL, bots with axes) I like: * the idea

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist

2012-10-04 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Hello there, it came to my attention today that several users have been reverting Platonides' Wiki-Bot, contesting it's decision about disqualifying pictures uploaded to Wikimedia Commons after midnight local time. I am aware of the fact that there have been probably hundreds of files uploaded in

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist

2012-10-04 Thread Peter Ekman
about the general case. All the best, Pete User:Smallbones Message: 2 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:46:41 +0200 From: Tomasz W. Koz?owski odder.w...@gmail.com To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Why deadlines exist

2012-10-04 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2012/10/5 Peter Ekman pdek...@gmail.com: Probably more important is the case where somebody starts uploading hundreds of photos just before the deadline (Did this actually happen somewhere?) To me that suggests something wrong, but not with the bot or even the rules of the contest. I'm not