Announcing the Winners of Picture of the Year 2025!
Hi everyone,
Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.
Here are your top three winning images:
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area. Attribution: WAFA (Q2915969) / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia. Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers. Attribution: public domain
You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed here: Full 2025 Results
I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to see that level of growth and community engagement.
Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!
I screwed up when I tried to crop the ChatGPT logo. The border around the logo is super large and I just wanted the logo name section only but when I cropped it, for some reason it took out the text. See File:Chatgpt-logo-1672775463-logotic-brand (cropped).svg AtsmeTalk📧 14:13, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
Thank you! Much, much better!! BTW, is it just me, or are there broken thumbnails on Commons over on the right inside the infoboxes. I wonder what's up with that? AtsmeTalk📧 00:52, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
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