Hi,

You can actually do this both ways.

Firstly, indeed you can create participation restriction whatever way you want 
(e.g. residents of Suriname only). The only restriction is your national legal 
constraints. In some countries they allow only local residents to win prizes 
because of legal requirements, in other countries it might be illegal to deny 
participation to foreigners.

Secondly, you may well create special nominations for locals and/or foreigners 
if you want and you consider it justified. We experimented this in Ukraine a 
few times.
For example, once we had a special prize for a photo made by a foreigner (with 
the winner even coming to Kyiv to the award ceremony - obviously it was before 
the Russian invasion) because we had a partner interested in it and we wanted 
to reach the audience of tourists and/or expats.
On another occasion we had a special prize for a photo made by a (Ukrainian) 
secondary school student - because we had a partner working with this audience 
and we saw this as a great opportunity to encourage participation there.
In both cases people could contend for main prizes and for the specific prize. 
In all cases it was primarily based on self-identification (we required users 
to tick a box or sign on a page if they wanted to participate in this special 
nomination.

I would honestly recommend the later approach - try to identify potential 
audience (e.g. local students, members of a local photographic society etc.) 
and introduce a special award for them. This does encourage participation 
without discouraging others.

Mykola (NickK)
WLM Ukraine

1 грудня 2022, 16:53:41, від "effe iets anders" <effeietsand...@gmail.com>:

I can well imagine this. At the same time, I can appreciate the concerns that I 
read as underpinning this question: how can we create an environment where the 
people living in country X, feel that they have a fair chance to actually win 
the competition, rather than all prizes being scooped up by tourists with 
better cameras (note the distinction between inhabitants and nationals, in this 
context). If your goal is to use the competition to build a local community, I 
can understand such a rule as an intuitive response.  
That being said, I think I made my point about whether this might or might not 
be the most appropriate way to approach this challenge. I just wanted to make 
sure that what I suspect is other side of the argument is also clear. 

Warmly,
Lodewijk

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 4:28 PM Jan Ainali <ainali....@gmail.com> wrote:
While each country organizer is free to make whatever silly rules they want, I 
would be furious if an affiliate chose to deny me from participating in a Wiki 
Loves X where I live just because I am not from that country, unless they were 
legally required to do so.  I would even be angry if someone rejected my 
holiday photos as well. This is contrary to everything about collaboration 
Wikimedia holds dear.
Jan Ainali

Den tors 1 dec. 2022 kl 14:57 skrev Michelle van Lanschot 
<vanlansc...@wikimedia.nl>:
Dear everyone,

The WLM Suriname team will soon be evaluating this years competition, and we 
have two questions we would like to ask your advice on:
1. The winner of this year's competition was not from Suriname, but from the 
Netherlands. This has caused some criticism from the local community. Is it 
possible to only accept contributions by natives of Suriname?
2. This year's top ten has 7 pictures from the same uploader. How would we go 
about avoiding this next year?
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts!

Best regards,

Michelle van Lanschot

Projectleider 

(ma, di, wo, do)

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