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2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

There are other abandoned sections of the Pennsylvania Turnpike besides the one in Breezewood, Pennsylvania. You know that, right? --DanTD (talk) 12:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm going based on the common name of the stretch of pavement called "Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike." It would be out-of-place to see the crumbling former four-lane roadway or tunnels that are in Bedford/Fulton counties to all of a sudden see long shots of an interchange in Berks County next to active roadways. —Mr. Matté - En. 'pedia talk 13:35, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

2012 nj senate map

could you please add the vote margins for the municipality map? Putitonamap98 (talk) 05:49, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

No because you'll change it anyway from what I create like with the other NJ maps I've created. I'll spend my time elsewhere. —Mr. Matté - En. 'pedia talk 11:59, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

are you against using NJ town maps that align with the county maps and including them in the infobox? Putitonamap98 (talk) 03:00, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Frackville

I took the image with the specific intention of depicting the town - the street is incidental, the Orthodox church is just as important as the road in a general view of the town. The Frackville category itself uses the image for the town. Overly specific categorization makes things like this unfindable for casual browsers of images. Acroterion (talk) 21:51, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

I don't disagree that some photos, especially roadway pics, are sometimes over zealously categorized (see other parts of SE PA), but that particular photo does feature the road in the center of the pic. But I'll warn you, the others who did those SE PA counties will make their way to this area and move anything with a mere speck of pavement into that kind of category. I'm trying to be a little more conservative in what I move into these cats since there's other municipalities in Schuylkill County that feature too many road pics in the main category (Tower City for example, most of which were my pix anyway). —Mr. Matté - En. 'pedia talk 22:02, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I've seen that sort of thing. The issue, which structural on Commons, is that the categorization system was inherited from Wikipedia, where it exists in parallel with article hyperlinking. No such synergy exists on Commons, and we end up with images pigeonholed into the narrowest possible description. Based on usage, that image would be eligible to be a valued image of Frackville based on its widespread usage in many languages as a depiction of the town. As a member of a state highway, where it is unused in that context, that would make no sense. Categorization should respond to usage. Acroterion (talk) 22:40, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

What I'll do is create a townscape category. Acroterion (talk) 23:29, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Old NJ 12

I don't think this actually was NJ 12. See discussion here: https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/Talk:New_Jersey_Route_12

As well as this, which I just found: https://archive.org/details/minutes-reel08-1933-1935/page/n1558/mode/2up

Note the reference to the Frenchtown Cut-off. NE2 (talk) 06:47, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

OH-503

A slight correction on the map located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_Route_503#/media/File%3AOH_503_map.svg

The town located slightly north of I-70 on OH-503 is "Lewisburg", not "Lewistown". Thank you! Hbtr00 (talk) 23:18, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Changed out the map on the en.wiki article to be an interactive map instead of the hard coded map which we generally don't create/update anymore. —Mr. Matté - En. 'pedia talk 03:06, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

River Line

FYI, as part of a broader effort to untangle railway lines (infrastructure) from railway services, I've subcategorized Category:River Line (New Jersey Transit). The trackage is now divided into Category:Amboy Branch: Camden–Bordentown, Category:Bordentown Branch (Bordentown–Trenton), and Category:River Line street trackage in Camden; there are also categories for stations and the rolling stock. Best, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:57, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2025 voting is open!

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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:

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  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
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  Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia.
  Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
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  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!

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Equus Freeport Power Plant, March 2025

You're telling me this building owned by Freeport Electric Company is not owned by the Village of Freeport government? --DanTD (talk) 23:10, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Generally what I'm seeing is that it's owned by Hull Street Energy ([1] [2] [3]). —Mr. Matté - En. 'pedia talk 23:15, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

File:Interstate 840 map.svg

Hey! 840 has been completed now, so the dashed line should be made solid and the "future" shield should be removed. Cheers, Queen of Hearts (talk) 22:53, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Hardcoded .svg maps I generally do not update anymore as road articles mainly use JSON interactive maps today. —Mr. Matté - En. 'pedia talk 22:57, 23 July 2026 (UTC)