Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-19 Thread Jonathan Cardy
Thanks Gordo, We also have buildings that are scarcely visible now and are best photographed after the leaves have fallen. November to July makes sense to me, it also means if the contest takes off there is plenty of time to geocode more articles without images so Rich's list picks them up. R

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-19 Thread Lucy Crompton-Reid
Great picture! On 19 August 2016 at 12:04, Gordon Joly wrote: > > > By the end of November you are down to a little over 8 hours of > > daylight, the sun will be rather low for a good portion of that, and the > > weather will be, well, British. In which case another time of year would > > be pre

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-19 Thread Gordon Joly
> By the end of November you are down to a little over 8 hours of > daylight, the sun will be rather low for a good portion of that, and the > weather will be, well, British. In which case another time of year would > be preferable. Good month for fog? Also December. https://commons.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-18 Thread Jonathan Cardy
Thanks Richard, The original idea was to reuse this list for a photography competition, it has already been used for some image finding exercises. That said last I looked about a third had an image already on commons if you searched. I'll clarify that prizes are for significant effort such as t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-18 Thread Richard Nevell
Hello, That's quite an impressive set of articles needing illustrations, I hadn't realised there would be so many. How many are there exactly? There's certainly scope for some kind of initiative to whittle them down. As WMUK is mentioned on the project page I thought it might be worth providing a

[Wikimediauk-l] UK photography contest

2016-08-18 Thread WereSpielChequers
Dear all, As a result of discussions at last Sunday's London meetup, and to take advantage of a list created by Rich Farmbrough, I have started drafting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_Kingdom/photography_contest_2016 It hath a talkpage. Hopefully we can finalise in th