Hi, On 19.03.2014 00:04, Andrew Hain wrote: > Does the process of selecting images need to be friendlier?
Frankly, I looked at the IotW page and I see one person (Aseerel4c26) esentially finding something to nit-pick with every single image. He doesn't seem totally *wrong* but I think he's just raising the bar too high - in my opinion, "image of the week" must not be confused with an award for excellence. An IotW does not have to be best-of-breed, it can simply be something interesting, quirky, funny, whatever. While I think that respect demands everyone should be heard, I think that if I were engaged in the IotW process, after a while I would just ignore Aseerel4c26's remarks and if come Monday there's no IotW image that he likes, I'd just put up one that he doesn't like - it's not as if anyone has a veto right. I have at times in the past simply put up an image that I liked without any discussion if there was no IotW and I had a good idea I wouldn't hesitate to fast-track it myself. This is the Wiki after all! > Are the suggested guidelines posted at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Featured_image_proposals#Draft_Guidelines > helpful? I don't think they are wrong but frankly, several pages of rules and guidelines (elsewhere on that page we have a detailed timeline saying that 14 days in advance is the latest that you can submit a proposal... hello? bureaucracy or what?) just seem too much for something that should be fun and easy to do. I can see that you would need rules if people start abusing IotW (e.g. "this image shows the great new map by XY corp") and then when you say no they go "please show me the rules where it says no advertising...") - but has such abuse happened? Else I'd just say, take it easy, relax, make a list of the next 10 upcoming IotW's with 10 empty slots, and whoever fills one first, has that slot, no big discussion, done. Just like elsewhere on the Wiki, if it is felt that someone plays foul, you would just remove his entry again but you would have to have important reasons. Just my $0.02 as someone who hasn't been involved in IotW for a longer time. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
