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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:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

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.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

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,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Womens hour records progression.svg

Hi Falcorian, are you able to update the File:Womens hour records progression.svg to include Joscelin Lowden new record of 48.405 km? Thanks --Find bruce (talk) 00:46, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

You're actually the second person who pinged me about this! 😊 Yes, I intend to, I've just been a tad busy recently... --Falcorian ^(talk) 05:46, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Done! --Falcorian ^(talk) 18:52, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Hour record charts

Hi, can you please update the charts at the above article, both have has new records set - thanks XyZAn (talk) 17:23, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Done. -- Falcorian ^(talk) 21:46, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, could you please update the charts again, adding in Ganna's new record. It also would be good if the orange and blue horizontal lines could stop after the final records were set (Boardman and Sosenka) as those rule sets are no longer used and so only the green data points will change in the future. thanks! (same for the women's chart to please) XyZAn (talk) 14:31, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

They've got to stop setting these records so I can get some rest! I'll get Ganna added. However, I disagree with dis-continuing the other record lines. I think they provide a clear way to compare across eras. Might try something like fading them or dashing them to indicate they're old, but that might add some chart clutter. I'll see. --Falcorian ^(talk) 02:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Alright, updated with data. Will give the line tweaks a chance when I have some more free time. --Falcorian ^(talk) 03:48, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Hour record charts (again)

Dear Falcorian,

Thanks for the Python script to generate the hour record charts, very cool. I grabbed a copy and added Vittoria Bussi's new record, and also modified the script a bit so that the orange and blue lines stop when those records become obsolete (i.e. as soon as they were beaten by the unified record). Would you object to me adding this to File:Womens hour records progression.svg and File:Mens hour records progression.svg? -- Best regards, Rz98 (talk) 18:40, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

In the meantime, I asked for admin permission to upload the new file, also updated the source and data file; I hope that's ok. Thanks again for the script! -- Best regards, Rz98 (talk) 18:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the update! I don't have as much time as I used to, so other's updating if I can't was the whole point of putting the script up! --Falcorian ^(talk) 04:40, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

A new noticeboard for permission requests from external sources

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