Hi, the rationale is the date when we want the final results to be in. We want to be able to send out the calendars by mid December - that means we need a design- and production cycle before that. Our estimate is that we need to start that by November 20. That also gives us a nice time frame to announce the results officially after collecting more info about the actual winners.
My estimate is that the international jury needs 3-4 weeks to come to a result based on all these high quality images from all these different cultures. Hence that we came to October 21, which leaves a few days leeway. If it is totally unrealistic, we will have to put it later - but from our point of view the 21 would definitely fit in best. That leaves 3 weeks for your national jury to come to a result. Last year I think only one country didn't make the deadline of October 31, and that was because one specific judge didn't reply (and that combined with, as I understood it, nobody chasing the process at the first weeks). Best, Lodewijk 2012/8/8 Platonides <[email protected]> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to repeat the deadlines from > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline > > once again, and would like to hear it very soon if one of the deadlines > is > > not realistic for you, or if you have good reasons to change it. > Especially > > the October 21 deadline is important. With that information, we will set > the > > final deadlines on Saturday. > > > * October 21: Deadline for submitting the 10 nominations for the > > international contest. This can be a private submission (with delayed > > publishing) and they do not have to be ordered. Being late for this > deadline > > might result in having no nominations in the international contest - so > make > > sure this is a realistic deadline for you. > > Last year the deadline was on October 31, and several countries had > problems to get the results by that date. I don't think this year it > will be less problematic. > What was the rationale for cutting down the date? I wouldn't have moved it. > > Regards > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org >
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