You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki.
Before you uploaded all these maps and replaced them across the entirety of Wikipedia, it's clear that you didn't even bother to read the license on Scotese's website These maps may not be copied, resold, used or modified in any manner for commercial purposes, such as consulting reports, trade journals or the popular press, textbooks, videos, educational CD-ROMS, computer animations, museum exhibits, web sites on the Internet or for any other commercial use, without the express written consent of the author. The lack of commercial use clearly means that the images cannot be uploaded to Commons, as stated at Commons:Licensing. There's no reason to believe the license on Zenodo (which have been repeatedly questioned before on other publications) overwrites those of the actual license on Scotese's website. I am politely asking you either email Scotese to confirm his maps are actually under a CC-BY license, or to revert all of your changes on Wikipedia as well as to delete these images. If you do not do either of these, I will be forced to nominate them for deletion. Thanks. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:10, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
OOPS! I'm so sorry! I was sure to check the licenses of the images before uploading, but it seems I overlooked Scotese's personal license! As of the time of this message, I've sent him an email regarding this issue I've created. Thanks for letting me know. (I also asked him to see if the CC BY 4.0 license found on the site (https://zenodo.org/records/10659112) actually stands)
By the way, if he says yes, would you like to see the response he gave me word-by-word from his email message, and would you like me to add a license on the pictures expressing that I got permission from him? — Alex26337 (talk) 03:25, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
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!
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