Happy holidays ArionStar! Merry christmas! Best wishes for 2025!
-- Giles Laurent (talk) 21:52, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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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!
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.
Oi, Arion. Alterei os parâmetros de bloqueio pra que possa editar esta página exclusivamente para questões relacionadas ao pedido de desbloqueio. Boa sorte com o pedido! —Teles «Talk to me ˱CL@S˲» 16:12, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
Pinging some Commons administrators who are/were active on FPC (target of the blocking) @Yann, Christian Ferrer, Ezarate, and King of Hearts: Apparently I have some good edits on English Wikipedia, thinking that blocking isn't punitive forever but educative. ★ 22:23, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
You must use {{Unblock}} and write a clear reason why you should be unblocked. What circumstances have lead to block and how you will avoid them. Pinging admins isn't a correct way. Юрий Д.К. 11:19, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
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Request reason: "Since I have several non-disruprive edits on English Wikipedia, there is real intention to collaborate positively on Commons (not being disruptive nor creating sock puppet accounts) ★ 15:10, 23 January 2026 (UTC)"
Unblock reason: "I believe you and grant you unblock. Happy editing! Taivo (talk) 10:20, 25 January 2026 (UTC)"
You were blocked for a year for massive sockpuppet abuse. One year from the block has passed, one year from block of every sockpuppet has passed. So I am open to unblock. Users can be unblocked, if they understand reasons of their block and give a credible promise not to continue. Neither can be seen in the request. Юрий Д.К. said correctly: "What circumstances have lead to block and how you will avoid them?" Please answer. No need to ping, I look the unblock requests category every day. Taivo (talk) 11:24, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
I added a summary in parentheses but I can explain more: I was disruptive on FPC and created sock puppet accounts after my block, with the latter generating an indefinite block. During my period on FPC I was in a hurry, not respecting the respective time, and proposing some disruptive nominations as a form of protest. I am committed to diversifying the catalog of FPs by nominating better photos and respecting the deadlines. ★ 17:18, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
@Taivo: apparently someone reverted your unblocking. What's the reason? ★ 23:17, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
In an edit page, it reads: "The block was made by Krd". ★ 23:26, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
It was an IP blocking; how is it possible even logged-in? ★ 23:31, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
Unblock request granted
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Unblock reason: "I decided to remove the block due to technical problem – IP-s are generally not indefinitely blocked. Happy editing! Taivo (talk) 10:25, 14 February 2026 (UTC)"
Bem-vindo de volta, @ArionStar. Bom tê-lo no Sabia Que da ptwiki e agora nas FPs do Commons. Só não esquece que estás sendo vigiado, inclusive por mim. 😏 heylenny (talk/edits) 22:57, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
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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) 03:13, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
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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.
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.
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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.
This is a deletion request for the community to discuss whether the nominated page should be kept or deleted. Please voice your opinion in the linked request above. Thank you very much!
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.
Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!
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!