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 from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status.
Archives of all the images can be downloaded from here or here.
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[edit] /2009
Fourth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year
(Preparation) · (Translations) · (Discussion) · Organising committee · (Issues / Help)
Introduction & dates · Voting · Round 1: Galleries · Round 2: Finalists · Results · 
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[edit] /2008
Third 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 2008 there were 501 images promoted to Featured Picture. During the first round of the competition, participants could vote for as many images they liked, resulting in 27647 votes by 994 people. The top 51 images proceeded to the final. In the final, 712 cast a vote, of which 74 were cast on the winner File:Biandintz eta zaldiak - modified2.jpg. See more results of the first round and final.
- Browsable preview archive of the eligible images
 #1: Horses on Bianditz mountain, in Navarra, Spain, by Mikel Ortega/Richard Bartz (CC-by-sa-2.0) |
 #2: Fire breathing "Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band" Chassepierre Belgium, by Luc Viatour (CC-BY-SA-2.5, 2.0, 1.0) |
 #3: Steam locomotives of the Chicago & North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards, by Jack Delano (PD-USGov) |
[edit] /2007
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.
- Browsable preview archive of the eligible images
 #1: Broadway Tower in Cotswolds, England, by Newton2 (CC-BY-2.5) |
 #2: New York City at night, photographed using the HDR technique, by Paulo Barcellos Jr. (CC-BY-SA-2.0) |
 #3: Red Squirrel with pronounced winter ear tufts in the Hofgarten in Düsseldorf, by Ray eye (CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE) |
[edit] /2006
First Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year
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.
- Browsable preview archive of the eligible images
 #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 (tie): Blue Jay bird, by Mdf (GFDL) |
 #3 (tie): Hoverflies mating, by Fir0002 (GFDL) |
