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My name is Sarai Sanchez, and I'm a member of the Product Design team at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're conducting a round of online interviews to gather feedback from Toolforge users on new tool management features. We believe that you recently created a Toolforge account, and that makes you a great candidate for the exploration. Would you be interested in taking part? If so, please fill out this short survey. Participants will receive a thank-you gift as a token of our appreciation.
Thank you for your time and consideration! SSanchez-WMF (talk) 19:37, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for reaching out and considering me for the feedback session. I’m happy to have filled out the survey and appreciate the opportunity to contribute. If there’s anything else I can help with or any further feedback you need, feel free to reach out. I’m glad I could assist! Dev Jadiya (talk) 04:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2024 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 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,
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Commons Photographers User Group Virtual Meeting, October 2025
Hello Dev Jadiya!
You are receiving this message because you are one of our esteemed members of the Commons Photographers User Group.
You are invited to the next virtual meeting of the Commons Photographers User Group! This is a great opportunity to connect, discuss important updates, and plan for the future of our group. Please register for the event using the link below!
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Please take a moment to review the voting process on the QI page before leaving too many votes. You're overloading the nomination section. Please stop supporting images that have already been promoted. There is no need to vote in support of candidates with a green border or to reject candidates with a red border. This delays promotion, as the bot only takes into account the time of the last vote. A reviews for candidates who have not yet been considered (blue borders) will be useful. Thank you.
With best regards, -- George Chernilevskytalk 07:26, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
Hello George,
Thanks for letting me know! I’ll focus on reviewing only the blue border candidates from now on and avoid extra votes on images already promoted or declined. Dev Jadiya (talk) 08:11, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
Autopatrol given
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have grantedautopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. Abzeronow (talk) 01:22, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
Join the first national Wiki Science Competition 2025 in India from 1 Nov to 15 Dec
Hello Dev Jadiya!,
You are receiving this message as you have previously participated in one of the Wiki Loves X campaigns or are an active Wikimedia Commons contributor.
We’re excited to announce that the Wiki Science Competition 2025 in India is being organized for the very first time at a national level.
This global campaign celebrates science through freely licensed images, videos, and other media on Wikimedia Commons. By participating, you help make science more visible, accessible, and inspiring to people everywhere.
The competition features eight exciting categories:
People in Science
Microscopy
Astronomy
Everyday Science
Scientific Equipment
Chemistry
Physics
Special Category
Campaign Duration:
The competition will run from 1 November to 15 December 2025.
You can upload your images anytime during this period.
Images taken before 1 November 2025 are also eligible, as long as they have never been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons before.
We’re excited to introduce the first-ever dedicated "Mobile Photography" participation option.
Now, you can upload photographs taken with your mobile phone directly through a special upload wizard.
This new option is designed to encourage students and individuals who may not have access to high-end cameras like DSLRs to participate.
Whether your images are captured using a mobile phone or a professional DSLR, all submissions will be judged equally within the relevant category.
This ensures that everyone has an equal opportunity to capture and share the wonders of science from their own perspective.
We look forward to your participation and support in making this national campaign a great success. It’s your chance to participate, get recognized, and show how science looks through your lens!. Thank you.
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I felt a proper explanation was in order as this image is on your user page and is yours. This file has two fatal issues:
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Your most memorable shot of 2025
Happy New Year! As always at the beginning of the new year, I'm inviting you to share your most memorable shot of the past year. Which of your photos stood out in 2025? Which image created special memories that you'd like to share with others? On behalf of the Commons Photographers User Group I wish you, your family and your friends all the best for 2026. Warmly, -- Mouryan (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
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Comments Support Good quality. --Lrkrol 20:27, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images.
Comments Support Good quality. Epic photo, maybe FP? --Gower 18:18, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
Your image has been reviewed and promoted
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Comments Support Good quality. --Romzig 16:00, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
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Comments Support Good quality. --Lmbuga 07:47, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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Comments Support A touch on the dark side for my taste, but overall good quality. --D-Kuru 16:32, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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Comments Support Good quality. --Lrkrol 09:26, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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Comments Is nominated for DR by the uploader/author? Uhmm... OK? --D-Kuru 16:32, 9 March 2026 (UTC) Support QI for me, dont get what he want. Dont see any fail. --PetarM 17:56, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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.
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!
Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,
I hope you’re well and enjoy your time as a photographer on Wikimedia Commons. In my role of the new chair of the user group, I have a couple of updates to share with you.
After the election, the new board met for the first time on March 21 and immediately got to work. We elected the organization’s officers and decided to move from quarterly to monthly board meetings. We believe meeting more frequently will create more opportunities to serve our members effectively and help move the group forward.
We also successfully applied for a pre-conference at the upcoming Wikimania in Paris (July 21–25). If you’re planning to attend the conference, please consider joining us on July 21th for a day full of conversations about photography and Commons. Please sign up here if you’re interested.
And finally, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our first online meeting, which will take place on May 31. Our member Wojciech, an experienced concert photographer, will give a talk on photographing orchestras during live performances. I’m especially excited that we’ll have the opportunity to meet online again and am very much looking forward to this event.
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