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I learned last month there is a Cache of the Month winners LIST and a Cache of the Month winners BOOKMARK. They have different information. The shorter list is shown on the WGA COTM page, however a link is provided for the longer geocaching.com bookmark (both created by the WGA). I didn’t realize they were reporting two different sets of information. The list shown on the WGA website only reports cache winners from 2/2015 to current (currently 161 caches), while the bookmark list only reports the winners from 2/2002 through 10/2014 (407 total). Nov 2014 to January 2015 are not presented on either list. Maybe they didn’t have COTM voting in those months. I suppose I could look it up.
Each month I (usually) nominate some caches for the Cache of the Month. After selecting possibilities in all 5 regions (I get around), I have been using the bookmark list that is linked on the COTM page to reference what has already won. Last month I was informed that two of my nominations had previously won and therefore those nominations were being omitted, so today I looked closer at the bookmark list. That’s when I noticed that the bookmark list was outdated. Could this be addressed so we know which caches we can nominate and vote for?
When I click on “View Cache of the Month winners as a geocaching.com bookmark list” it takes me to this bookmark list:
https://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=5ac71e2a-311c-43be-9b74-1df91ade7399
So to correct the disconnect, several possibilities:
1. If the lists are not going to be synched/updated, simply change “View Cache of the Month winners as a geocaching.com bookmark list,” to state “View Cache of the Month winners from 2002-2014 as a geocaching.com bookmark list,” and change the list shown on the WGA website from “View
completelist of previous Cache of the Month winners” to state “View list of previous Cache of the Month winners 2015-current.”2. Add the missing COTM winners (if any) from Nov 2014 to January 2015.
3. Add all COTM caches to the geocaching.com bookmark list, keep the wording that says “View Cache of the Month winners as a geocaching.com bookmark list,” and change the wording on the WGA COTM page for the recent winners to state “View list of previous Cache of the Month winners 2015-current.”
4. Take no action and leave the two different lists as is.
I prefer option 3, since I’m used to referencing the bookmark list when considering possibilities for nomination. When looking at that bookmark list, I can select Ctrl-F (“find”) and search for a keyword in the title of the cache I’m considering. If it doesn’t show up on the search, I know it’s not on the bookmark list and I nominate it. But I now know that it won’t necessarily work since there are two separate lists and they do not contain the same information. Going forward, at least for now, I’ll have to search two separate lists before nominating a cache.
Thanks John. I don’t know if I was aware there was a bookmark list or who “owns” that list. I will also look to see what happened with the missing winners.
I do know that there are some winner banners that we were unable to get the code to work for but not aware that these may not have populated the winners list.
Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
Yes, thank you John for bringing this to our attention and Pete as well for checking into this.
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Very cool link! I enjoyed perusing it…some great old caches on that list! Thanks for resurrecting it 🙂
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Now that the COTM will have one winner per month for the entire state rather than one from each of the 5 regions, has there been any thought given to series of the month? It sounds like that is being eliminated, intentionally or not. There are some great cache series out there that with the new format would get lost in the shuffle. Perhaps a state-wide COTM on a monthly basis, and a series of the month on a monthly, quarterly or semi-annually basis?
There was discussion. As a BOD. We decided to elect a cache per month. No series. But prizes for the owner will be awarded just like POTM… though COTY is something to think about. In truth only BOD was voting the last couple on months. Hopefully a prize will now promote more voting.
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