Hi all. I have a couple of requests, directed particularly to the photographers amongst
you.
1. Enter photos into the Wiki Loves Monuments competition
As some list subscribers may may know, I'm organizing the Wiki Loves Monuments
competition in the UK. Although we have received over 8000 UK entries so far, the majority
of those have probably been taken by users who are more interested in Wikipedia than in
photography, and we are in need of some more high-quality entries from talented
photographers.
If you have any nice photos of UK listed buildings in your portfolio (for example from a
previous UK holiday) please could you look them out and submit some entries?
The website is at
http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/, and the last date for submissions
is midnight UK time on 30th September (next Monday). If you have images taken outside the
UK, they can be entered via this page.
2. Help with pre-screening of the competition entries
To avoid overloading the three-person UK jury with 10,000+ images to be judged, I'm
looking to recruit around 20-30 volunteers who can help with some pre-screening to
eliminate entries that have no prospect of winning one of the top 10 prizes. We have an
online jury tool for that purpose, and all you need to do is to click through one
day's worth of entries and quickly mark those that the judges don't need to see.
No complicated scoring or judging ability is needed - just the ability to separate a
potential prizewinner from the obviously lower-quality entries. For consistency, there
will be two people independently reviewing each image.
The work involved would be a minimum of one hour, to a maximum of 10, and would need to be
done over the next two weeks.
It would be fantastic if a good number of people from these mailing lists could help out.
You can enter the competition as well as help with the pre-screening, as you wouldn't
be asked to pre-screen your own images.
Thanks for anything you can do. Please email me if you'd like more details.
Regards
Michael