Comments on: Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 2: Competition

By: David Jackson

David Jackson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:19:45 +0000

Flickr accounts.
To deal with the limits on Basic accounts, try to persuade flickr to raise the limit (I suggest to 1Gb) for upload for those registered with the WLA Pool, for the duration of the competition.
If they will not do that, then organise the dates of the competition to incude two (or preferably three) calendar months. This at least gives a larger allowance.
The alternative (of reducing image resolution to reduce file size) seems a great pity.

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By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:44:02 +0000

I appreciate your vigilance and we will see what happens.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:34:47 +0000

I have watched the relevant persons, and they have not uploaded such photos.

Seriously, I have not seen one example, and you have not notified me of any.

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:15:02 +0000

We have countless e-mails and discussion to this effect and the examples given don’t begin to scratch the surface of the issues (seriously folks, e-mail me). Thank you for your efforts to dissuaded people, but we should all understand that dissuading people is not the same as stopping them. Again, only time will tell.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:01:07 +0000

I’ve looked through this thread carefully:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/discuss/72157614265850316/

I think there has been a misreading. There is no message there resembling any idea that “hey, if you get rejected from the pool, just upload to Commons directly.”

On the contrary, Wikimedians have required that participants must submit photos through the pool and in collaboration with the museums. I have personally dissuaded people from uploading many hours of their work which they shot in ignorance of this rule.

(FYI, I have no clue know who sent the purported flickrmail or its exact content)