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Reminder About Qualification Requirements
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[A copy of this is being sent to all registered photographers via email, reposting here.]
Thanks for your continued participation and support of Wikipedia Loves Art. As this week comes to a close, we need to remind you of a few things which will help things go as smoothly as possible. Any images that do not following these guidelines (as well as any other guideline issues we find) will be removed from the pool and cannot be used on Wikipedia, so think: tags! licensing! index cards! public!
-Tags: Images must be tagged properly with category, team name, organization. All three are important and leaving any one of these tags off your submission (including category tags) will result in the photos not qualifying.
-Licensing: Your images must be licensed properly ("Attribution Creative Commons" or "Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons") to qualify. If you are having trouble doing this, CJN212 has produced a nice tutorial that can help you.
-Index Cards: In most cases you are required to produce two shots - one with an index card with appropriate information and one clean shot. The only exceptions to this are a) the V&A has requested label shots, not index cards or b) if you are shooting at a Luce Center and have captured the accession number in the shot (example), that will work for us. In all other cases, we need to see those cards. If you didn't shoot with cards and now it's too late to go back, we will accept something along these lines.
-Public: Clean shots must be marked public in order to qualify.
Once the pool closes, we are going to give you 24 hours to fix any issues and we will try and notify you via Flickrmail or photo comments of problems that arise. Please note however, we may not always be able to notify you and it is your responsibility to fix any issues even if you don't get notification from us. Any images that do not follow the above guidelines (as well as any other guideline issues we find) will be removed from the pool and cannot be used on Wikipedia.
Submissions must be sent to the Flickr WLA pool by midnight on the last day of February in whichever timezone the respective museum is in. We will be inserting markers at midnight of each timezone declaring closure at XYZ locations. Anything submitted after that cutoff will be deleted from the pool and not scored.
We will continue to post updates to the Flickr WLA group, so keep your eyes on the group for more announcements (especially with regard to how long it may take us to score the final submissions).
Many thanks and happy shooting in these final days.
Shelley
Originally posted at 8:45AM, 24 February 2009 PDT
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Brooklyn Museum edited this topic 40 months ago.
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Thanks Shelley for your guidance and participation. I think all the wikipedians participating are trying to cooperate to the letter and in the spirit of what was intended, but I am sure there will be some/many photos that don't meet the criteria. For us all to learn the most from this experience, I wonder if you could plan to report / comment on what are the reasons why some photos don't qualify in the end. Perhaps, instead of just removing photos from the Flickr WLA pool, you could put the "rejects" into a subpool or different pool category which you could create. Actually i don't know if that is possible, me being new to Flickr and this whole situation. But that would allow others to analyze our failures, later, too. Again, thanks for everything, this has been fun already. -- Doncram
Posted 40 months ago.
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Hi Doncram,
I appreciate your thoughts. The photos must be removed from the pool and that's the best we can do on this issue. It's important to be able to say --> anything here qualifies - we must be very clear about this and there can be no confusion (the other options you mention could be too easily confused - we just can't have that).
Erin and I will both be doing massive blog posts about the lessons, failures and successes of this project on the Brooklyn Museum blog and will be posting links here when those are published. That will give some analysis of how many images didn't make it etc. Which rules were most problematic, etc.
As we all know, this is a learning experience for us all and even if every photo cannot be used because of qualification issues, many, many photographs will be going to the wiki still and that's a good thing (even if not perfect in everyone's eyes).
Thanks,
Shelley
Posted 40 months ago.
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