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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

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To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
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Everything about some people is about Watergate?

Hi. I'm having trouble figuring out what Category:Watergate is redundant to, when categorizing Category:Resignation of Richard Nixon. I noticed that people in Watergate scandal have been put under Category:Watergate but that's probably a bad idea: Not everything about those people is about Watergate. Either a person category is not redundant to a event category, or Category:Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon at the White House, 1970 is now about Watergate on Commons because it is related to Richard Nixon. --Closeapple (talk) 03:21, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from, Closeapple, but by the same argument Category:Baker Street tube station, Category:Deerstalkers (headgear) and Category:Charlton Heston are all related to mysticism on Commons because they are subcategories of subcategories of Category:Mysticism (>Category:Mystics > Category:Arthur Conan Doyle > Category:Sherlock Holmes > Category:Sherlock Holmes actors). I think that sometimes logic and consistency in such matters must bow to the imperative to make categories as easily available and visible as possible. I appreciate that you're thinking about this, though, because I'm also interested in such questions. Gildir (talk) 19:05, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

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Dan Rather on location and CBS

Hi. I noticed that you moved Category:CBS from Category:Dan Rather on location assignments to Category:Dan Rather. He hasn't been with CBS since 2005; for example, his main show since 2006 has been en:Dan Rather Reports, which is on AXS TV (HDnet). Many of the photos on Commons are post-2005. I'm thinking of maybe removing Category:CBS from both categories; Category:CBS could go on the few photos where he's actually doing something for CBS. Does that sound reasonable? --Closeapple (talk)

Yeah, that sounds fine. Sorry about the confusion. Gildir (talk) 19:02, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement

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Reminder: Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2016 is open!

You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2016 Picture of the Year contest.

Dear Gildir,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2016 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eleventh edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2016) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1475 candidate images. There are 58 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top #1 and #2 from each sub-category.

In the final round, you may vote for just one or maximal three image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 20 April 2017, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote »

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Sanandros (talk) 22:36, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Use of special characters for sortkey prefixes

Hello, by convention, special characters as prefixes are employed for "views" of the category other than the one ordered by the primary sortkey. In particular, "by country" category views by country don't use them. See for example, Category:Buildings by country and Category:People by country. Thus, the sortkey for Category:Topless men of the United States is

[[Category:Topless men by country|United States]]

, not

[[Category:Topless men by country|*]]

. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 23:21, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

CfD: College athletics programs

Hi, I have started a discussion to rename a large collection of categories, one or more of which you may have created or edited. Please see the discussion thread at Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/04/College athletics programs for details. Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 04:53, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Category:Topless_men_by_country

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Affected:

• File:Petr Dubrov in 2020.jpg

And also:

• File:Oleg Novitskiy in 2020.jpg
• File:Mark T. Vande Hei in 2020.jpg
• File:ISS Exp-64 Back Up Crew.jpg

Yours sincerely, Ras67 (talk) 10:57, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Quick assistance

Hey Gildir, I'm having trouble using crop tool as every time when I would attempt to crop an image this message would pop: "Upload failed! [api] Received error: autoblocked : Your IP address has been blocked automatically, because it was used by a blocked user". However, I haven't been blocked, received any messages implying that I would be blocked such as warnings, etc. So I'm not sure if this is a glitch on crop tool or am I really banned even though I can still edit on wikipedias and upload images here. There only complication is me using the crop tool. Would you happen to know what's the matter or who I can reach out to? --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 11:08, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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Sic?

Hey there! Just curious why you marked "Freedom 7" as sic at File:Kennedy, Johnson, and Webb in CCAFS Hangar S high bay (LOC-62-6880).jpg. No problem with it, I'm just not seeing the reason. — Huntster (t @ c) 20:51, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for asking! "Freedom 7" was Alan Shepard's Mercury capsule; "Friendship 7" was John Glenn's. The caption of the file in question reads, "...astronaut John Glenn's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule..." I don't know which capsule is actually pictured. (The image source is a dead link.) Gildir (talk) 21:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Ooookay, yeah, I was just being a dummy. Thanks for clarifying. I've added an archive link to the page. Source literally says "John Glenn's Freedom 7", heh. Good call on your part. — Huntster (t @ c) 21:20, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

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Affected:

• File:ISS-67 Artemyev waves during EVA.jpg

And also:

• File:ISS-67 Matveev and Artemyev EVA (2).jpg
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• File:ISS-67 Matveev and Artemyev EVA.jpg

Yours sincerely, Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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review

•  Comment File:Jonny Kim official portrait.jpg is best in scope as a portrait. I think the scope for this photo is "Jonny Kim in high-altitude pressure suit". -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:34, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
• Changing scope at Ikan Kekek's suggestion. ----

Scope changed from Jonny Kim to Jonny Kim in high-altitude pressure suit --Gildir (talk) 09:55, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

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•  Support Useful & Used. --A1Cafel (talk) 10:15, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Useful. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:20, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Result: 2 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:15, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

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•  Support Useful & Used --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:10, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Comment Gildir, we are not viewing a rescue. I think the proper scope is "Skylab Rescue Command Module, artist's rendering". -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:51, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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Scope changed from Skylab Rescue to Skylab Rescue Command Module, artist's rendering --Gildir (talk) 07:55, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

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•  Support in this scope. Thanks! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:57, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Perfect now --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 14:09, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Result: 2 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:18, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:20, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

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review

•  Best in Scope -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:32, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 04:42, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:21, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Category:Mitchell Fraboni

Hello, I see you created the Mitchell Fraboni category. Why's it still empty after 4 months?? Did you have a photo of him that you wanted to upload? Or did you already upload such a file, only for it to get deleted? 2600:1003:B451:6210:0:56:A37A:DD01 17:21, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

A file someone else uploaded (File:Mitchell Fraboni Highschool.image.jpg) which I placed in the category was deleted on 3 May. Gildir (talk) 17:24, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

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Default sort

Hi! Is there a problem with sorting the texts by year in the categories? https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Master_Key&curid=102259327&diff=842859608&oldid=695494249

Also, the illustrator can and should get credit here and have their images among their categories. This illustrator was with the original publication. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:St._Nicholas_(magazine)/Volume_32/Queen_Zixi&curid=124143957&diff=842861133&oldid=842859694

I am undoing your changes, so, let me know if there is a problem with that.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 16:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you for improving the Category:Videos of films in Tamil. Sriveenkat (talk) 10:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Friendship

Hi, let's be friends! Want to make some articles about aviation? I am interested in US aviation, people, geography, history etc.. What are you interested in? Kira Leonic (talk) 15:01, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

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File:ISS-36 EVA-23 Water drops in helmet.webp

Hello,

I've seen that you've requested renaming to "EVA-33," which the source indicates to 23 which I have corrected. If 33 is correct, please let me know and tell me why, Thank you! Takipoint123 (💬) 16:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

If I understand correctly, this was EVA-3 of ISS Expedition 36, but NASA EVA 23 of the ISS program overall. The event is perhaps better known as EVA 23, but I created Category:ISS-36 EVA-3 in order to be a subcategory of Category:ISS Expedition 36 EVAs. I'm open to someone else changing the category and filenames, if this seems desirable. Thank you for your rapid response to my request! Gildir (talk) 16:39, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Gildir: Oh that makes sense! I thought it was a typo because 2 and 3 are right next to each other on the keyboard. If you feel the need for the file name to be changed again, feel welcome to use Criterion 1 (or even Criterion 3) and state that in the rename reason. Thanks! Takipoint123 (💬) 16:45, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Gildir: I've seen the rename request and have renamed the file (since usually uploader requests are respected), but left 23 as the redirect as it may be more coloquially known as 23. Thanks :) Takipoint123 (💬) 16:51, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

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When uploading old media in which you understand copyright has expired, please provide a stable link to the relevant Catalog of Copyright Entries record, indicating the original copyright record, and a link to the volumes when renewal would have been required. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:10, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Commons also has a local copy of the volumes concerned AIUI. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:10, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

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When uploading media you understand to be in the public domain (either through expiry or non-renewal), please provide stable links to the original copyright record, (and renewal records if relevant.), in order to confirm the status of the media.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:23, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!

Dear Wikimedian,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2024 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year is the nineteenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2024) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and top 5% of most popular images in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just three images to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 1 will end on 27 September 2025, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote now!

Thanks,
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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because we noticed that you previously voted in the Picture of the Year contest. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2024) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

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In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2024.

Round 2 will end at 11 October 2025, 23:59:59 UTC.

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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!

Dear Wikimedian,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2025 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year is the twentieth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favourite images featured on Commons during the last year (2025) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and the top 5% of most popular images in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just five images to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 1 will end on 18 April 2026, 23:59:59 UTC.

Click here to vote now!

Thanks,
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:29, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because we noticed that you previously voted in the Picture of the Year contest. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favourite images featured on Commons during the last year (2025) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of five images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2025.

Round 2 will end at 2 May 2026, 23:59:59 UTC.

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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:

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  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
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  Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.
  Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
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  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!

Regards,
ZI Jony
For the POTY Committee 20:09, 9 May 2026 (UTC)