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Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!
2023 Picture of the Year: Incense plays an important role in Vietnamese life. It is considered as a sacred bridge to connect the visible life of human beings and the world of heaven, earth, and gods. Photo taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. In this picture, incense sticks are being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution.
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.
Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2024 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 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 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 three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2024.
Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
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.
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 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.
An offering for our new administrator from your comrades...
Nux, congratulations! You now have administrator rights on Commons. Please take a moment to read the Commons:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and its subpages), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Have a look at the list of Gadgets (on the bottom there are the ones specifically for admins– however, for example the UserMessages are very helpful too).
@Odder ciasto jabłkowe wygląda pysznie, dzięki 😉. Thanks Nux (talk··dyskusja) 09:08, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
@Odder Do I need to officially run a second vote to get IA rights? Some of the votes did explicitly endorse me for the role of Commons:Interface administrators, I think you might have missed that. I believe I've shown myself to be capable of doing the job of an IA:) Nux (talk··dyskusja) 09:16, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
@Nux: My apologies. I did read the discussion in full and I think it was quite explicit that you were applying for both sets of user rights. I just missed the box for interface admin when I changed your permission as I had to untick a few as well;) I do agree that you have proven to be more than capable over so many years of your contributions to Wikimedia. Many thanks for volunteering to help. PS. Zamiast amerykańskiego ciasta jabłkowego masz też tutaj chałkę — ja lubię z kremem orzechowo-czekoladowym albo dżemem:-) odder (talk) 09:43, 9 May 2026 (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!
Hi,
I'm not sure to exactly understand the comment in Commons:Deletion requests/File:CASTRES.png, “at best is just a duplicate”, since the file would not meet the requirements for being deleted as an exact or scaled-down duplicate, while it was for sure a copyvio.
There are other, althought lighter, examples, like this one, where a file uses an element from commons that was published under a CC or GFDL license, and is published without restrictions, although the license of the used element clearly specifies that it can be done under certain conditions (appropriate credit, etc.).
It’s a fairly common problem, which we sometimes fix, but this case is quite different as the files have been published on a license-free website.
Which means, by the way, that ultimately, even if File:CASTRES.png has been deleted, the file still being online on the index page, the copyvio issue is not really solved,
Regards, --Kontributor 2K (talk) 20:03, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
@Kontributor 2K not sure what you expect of me, it's not like I'm going to take down that French site 😉. If it is copyvio and wrong heraldry info I expect the user's account to be blocked on frwiki. Nux (talk··dyskusja) 22:16, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
It's pending on fr:wiki,
Anyway, I started to move some DRs from Category/deletion requests/pending to /deleted and I noticed that although File:ARCAY.png had been re-deleted, the 2nd DR had not been properly closed,
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