Commons:Picture of the Year

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The Commons Picture of the Year is a competition that was first run in 2006. It aims to identify the best freely-licensed images that participate in its quality control mechanisms such as Commons:Featured pictures and Commons:Quality Images.

Archives of the all images can be downloaded.

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Second Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year

(Preparation) | (Translations) | Discussion | Organising committee | Issues / Help

Introduction & dates | Voting | Round 1: Galleries | Round 2: Finalists | Results | Download

In 2007 there were 514 images promoted to Featured Picture. During the first round of the competition, participants could vote for as many images they liked, resulting in 31806 votes by 665 people. The top 28 images proceeded to the final. In the final, 919 cast a vote, of which 84 were cast on the winner Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England. See more results of the first round and final.

  1. 1: Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England, by Newton2 (CC-BY-2.5)
  1. 2: New York City at night, photographed using the HDR technique, by Paulo Barcellos Jr. (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
  1. 3: Red Squirrel with pronounced winter ear tufts in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf, by Ray eye (CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)

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390 and then 658 Wikimedians voted in 2 rounds for 321 images that were successfully nominated as Featured pictures during 2006. Voting was conducted on-wiki during the first two weeks of February 2007. Only one category was voted on: the Picture of the Year.

1: Aurora Borealis, by United States Air Force employee Senior Airman Joshua Strang (public domain)

2: Homeless man in Paris, by Eric Pouhier (CC-BY-SA-2.5)

3: Blue Jay bird, by Mdf (GFDL)

3: Hoverflies mating, by Fir0002 (GFDL)
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