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)

SVG versions of the symbols of political parties in India!

Hi @Furfur, would it be possible for you to upload SVG versions of the symbols of en:Telugu Desam Party and en:Bharat Rashtra Samithi, the bicycle and car respectively? These are currently available on Wikimedia as PNG files at File:Indian Election Symbol Cycle.png and File:Indian Election Symbol Car.png. 456legend (talk) 11:27, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Hamburger Olympia-Referendum 2026 Wahlkarte.svg

Moin! Faszinierend, dass die Datei exakt denselben Gewässerdecker für die Elbe und anschließende Hafenbecken verwendet wie Hamburg location map.svg und trotzdem scheint es keinerlei Verbindung zwischen den Dateien zu geben. Das ist mindestens so unwahrscheinlich wie ein Lottohauptgewinn. Da muss man wohl gratulieren. NNW 07:30, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Hallo NNW,

entschuldige bitte, ich wollte keineswegs deine Autorenschaft unterschlagen und werde das nachtragen. Ich hatte die Elbe von einer früheren Karte von mir (Hamburger Volksentscheid 2015 Wahlkarte.svg) entnommen. Ich sehe jetzt erst, dass damals Benutzer Kopiersperre die Elbe ergänzt hatte, ohne Angabe einer Quelle. Wenn du sicher bist, dass sie aus deiner Karte stammt, werde ich sie auch dort ergänzen. In der Regel nehme ich es wirklich sehr genau mit dem Namensnennungsattribut und bemühe mich, alle Urheber gebührend zu erwähnen. Da kannst Du dich bei meinen bisher hochgeladenen Dateien davon überzeugen. Die Basis für die Hamburg-Karte selbst (ohne Elbe) habe ich allerdings drekt von der Hamburger Wahlbehörde. Grüße Furfur ^{⁂ Diskussion} 18:39, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

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Affected:

• File:AAP Symbol.png

Janhrach (talk) 14:30, 8 June 2026 (UTC)