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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.
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Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth 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 (2013) 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. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.
The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results:
We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).
In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:
We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.
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In case you have doubts, ask around. This will save a lot of work down the line. Thanks, Ariadacapo (talk) 07:31, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Please read Commons:Categories#Over-categorization and try to respect our rules. If you disagree with any of them it is better to discuss your doubts in Commons:Village pump with other users instead of enforcing your own point of view. Ankry (talk) 19:38, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Category:Solar technology is limited to only few of your images; if it includes everything reletes to solar technologies -> overcategorizing
Category:Technological development? no reason for this category with only these few images; shoud be disputed over obout whot it is intended to contain. But if very narrow, the name is misteading; if broad -> overcategorizing again.
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Request reason: "Why my image of Tree_blooming_in_Mongolia_2014.png is "author unknown"? And please explain why are you deleting my categories like "Trees of Central Asia", "Trees of Mongolia" why these categories infringe policies here?"
Decline reason: "No reason to unblock given. But to make it clear: You didn't react after several warnings, just continued what you did before. Edit warring, adding meta-categories, and creating nonsense categories. Have a look at your deleted contributions. That's plenty for a block. Only one month block - you are lucky. The blocking administrator seems to believe you can learn. The block is valid. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 12:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)"
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Info Regarding your question about file:Tree_blooming_in_Mongolia_2014.png: The seems to be a problem with the collage you made, as stated in the deletion request: Unknown origin/authors of the photos, and "for Wikipedia usage only" remark in the description implies an invalid license
Use for Wikipedia is an unacceptable restriction on Commons. Further, the origin of the 6 photos used for the collage is not clear.
The category Trees in Central Asia should be Trees in Asia. The category Trees in Mongolia is fine, as long as it is used. We don't keep empty categories. Please read Com:Cat and Com:Overcat --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 12:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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The Mongolian law can be read here You can take a picture of a city, in which modern buildings are COM:DM, etc, or pictures of buildings, sculptures, etc that are COM:PD. Otherwise pictures of modern buildings should be nominated for deletion, as I just did here: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Blue Sky Tower Ulan Bator.jpg. You might want to review COM:CB as well. As for categories, it looks like yours were deleted because they were empty. They weren't sabotaged. You also seem to be rererring to Commons:Deletion requests/File:Tree blooming in Mongolia 2014.png. This had an unacceptable Wikipedia-only clause in it's license. See COM:L for acceptable licenses.
Your continual attacking of Savin, seeming refusual to even review law/policy/answers, and your repeat post at COM:AN after being warned, have caused me to put in place a short block. Your behavior needs to change and you need to reviw the policies I've linked, COM:Overcat, and Mongoloin FOP laws, or you may end up being blocked indefinitely. INeverCry 05:48, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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Edit warring and violation of COM:Overcat (see also last block by INeverCry). Next time you will be blocked indefinitely. --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:44, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there, and welcome back to Wikimedia Commons. I am a patroller here, and hope that per your last block by Steinsplitter, you have decided to become a less disruptive contributor (with your edit warring and violations of COM:OVERCAT). Also, I hope that you stop the personal attacks against others, too. If you do not stop this behavior, like Steinsplitter said, you will end up being blocked indefinitely. DLindsleyNeed something? 00:20, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
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In copying the information over, you did not attribute the author correctly, you changed the date, and you changed the license. This is terrible work. I just fixed it. Next time, please use the automated import tools linked to in the en.wikipedia file page description. Ariadacapo (talk) 06:36, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
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The source section of the image clearly says "Own work", what else source information are you requiring from me and is that special requirement equally requiring from other uploaders?? It is my mobile phone image stitched togther so that is why it does not have metadata. Orgio89 (talk) 03:48, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
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I received your email. You need to request unblock here. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 01:42, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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Request reason: "the source entry explanations are difficult to understand so I was confused about (Own work) type of source but later after sometime found out about collaged image source entry things. Orgio89 (talk"
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That doesn't explain or excuse your constant(!) behavior of blaming others for your mistakes, reverting admins, and accusing others of vandalism. You got blocked for exactly the same behavior on the English and the German wiki. All I see is that you repeat the same pattern here. We have better things to do than to listen to your accusations of vandalism and the poor little user from Mongolia being harassed everywhere. You are around long enough on wikis, you should know better. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 02:28, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Especially those of command line instructions are not well written for people who speak different language than english. Maybe europeans easily get one anothers points since they have closer culture. So after finding some examples later I found out about the differences. On other wiki cases those are different separate issues and my whole opinions are just simply ignored by admins. Orgio89 (talk) 02:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
What's the reason you can do as you please and the community has to accept that? Because you can't behave yourself we have to accept your bad behavior? Because you feel ignored when you don't get what you want we have to accept your bad behavior? Because you are from Mongolia we have to accept your bad behavior? Because you have problems reading rules we have to accept your bad behavior? No thanks, if I want to see bad behavior I turn on the TV. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 03:04, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Ok your opinion rules here. Thanks for your time! Orgio89 (talk) 03:09, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
My guess is the whole Wikipedia system lacks about clear dispute judging procedures here and due to different cultures there are a lot misunderstandings are occurring. If you check some random article especially linked to Mongolian history in English Wikipedia. You will see even tons of arguments and disputes all over. Because Chinese editors are systematically vandalising Mongolian history related articles in Wikipedia well due to some weird historic things. Just commenting about the general atmosphere. Orgio89 (talk) 03:14, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for the notification I will try to obtain their official permission statement soon. Can you keep these for few more days? Orgio89 (talk) 01:12, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
I've sent the permission letter to the commons. Thanks. Orgio89 (talk) 04:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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I will try to obtain their permission letter from the owner maybe can you let the file be here for few days. Thanks. Orgio89 (talk) 04:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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I tried to see the museum director to get their official permission letter but she is on business trip for a week so maybe you can leave the file for 10 days. And will send you the permission letter. Thanks. Orgio89 (talk) 04:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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It is public display poster why deleting? Orgio89 (talk) 12:38, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Follow our deletion requests pages, do not be centered only on your files or those about Mongolia, you will see that you will learn quickly how we do things in Commons. Cheers. --E4024 (talk) 12:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion but there are too few photos related with Mongolia here in commons and from Mongolia very likely only me uploading few tens of photos per year. The Commons mission is likely prohibit any discriminations hence uploading more isolated world corner photos is likely best suited for Commons mission. Thanks. Orgio89 (talk) 13:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
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Copyright can be rather complicated for any country and Mongolia is no exception. As far as I can see Mongolian copyright generally lasts for 50 years after the death of the artist per Commons:Copyright rules by territory#Mongolia and there does not appear to be any Freedom of panorama exception for creative works publicly displayed per Commons:Freedom of panorama#Mongolia. You uploaded several more images of artworks and display posters that all have essentially the same problem. By the very fact of taking photograph, copyright is established by the photographer but they may license that image as they wish but the copyright belongs to them. However, photos of other peoples artworks or photos are a different matter and the original works are copyright to the artists but some country's laws are different. So, every painting in your photos is copyright to the individual artist and require their permission as well as the permission of the photographer. The same goes for the large display posters. Unfortunately, you have not given an evidence that each of the copyright holders of the original works has given permission for you to use their work in a photo. You may possibly get the opera to verify their permission for the display posters but even they may not own the copyright of the photos they used; copyright is not necessarily transferred to the user unless by a contractual arrangement. Being on public display outdoors does not mean they are freely licensed. Just to let you know that the OTRS Team who deal with copyright permissions are quite backlogged about 60 days, so even if permission emails are sent by the copyright holders, do not expect a quick result. If an image is deleted before the permissions are verified, that image will be restored again when it is cleared. I hope this explains why your image are getting problem notices but we take copyright issues very seriously for everyones protection. Good luck. Ww2censor (talk) 09:46, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2022 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the seventeenth 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 (2022) to produce a single Picture of the Year.
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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!
2024 Picture of the Year:Mundari man polishing the horns of one of his Watusi cows using a mixture of cow urine and ash as a ritualistic and protective practice in a temporary cattle camp in Terekeka, South Sudan.
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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.
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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!
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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.
Announcing the Winners of Picture of the Year 2025!
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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!