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You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.
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Wiki Loves Food 2021 India
Hello Paramanu Sarkar!
Do you roam around in search of delicious mouth-watering foods and take photographs of them before you put them into your mouth? Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India photo-competition is then waiting for you! Participate in the competition from March 15 to April 14 this year, photograph and upload all kinds of foods and beverages originated from or found in Indian sub-continent and get a chance to win exciting prizes!
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Share Your Struggle 2021 (15 - 31 August 2021) is a public photo competition on Wikimedia Commons. The goal of the project is to improve coverage of free usable media files related to various struggles, such as, natural disasters, health crises such as COVID-19 pandemic, social movements, conflict-torn areas, and any other humanitarian crises. The goal is not only to document crises, but also humanitarian efforts and acts of kindness that happen during such crises.
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 India
Hello Paramanu Sarkar!
We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 12th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2021. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes! You can find more details about the Indian part of the competition in this page. See you in action in few hours!!
We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 13th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2022. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes!!!
You can find more details about the Indian edition of the competition in this event page. See you in action in few hours!!
We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 14th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2023. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes!!!
You can find more details about the Indian edition of the competition in this event page. See you in action soon!!
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Hello, Paramanu. On your recent speedy deletion requests, you used speedy reason C1 (improperly named category), but you didn't give the correct category name. I was able to delete most of the categories for a different reason (because they were empty), but I had to decline the delete on Category:Photographs of Ashy Drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) because it contains files.
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Hello Paramanu Sarkar, I just wanted to know why you removed most of the categories from the file named above (those on different species)? Since there are always the same categories for the same series of ornithological photos, this does not make sense. Unless you see an inconvenience, I will restore the categories concerned. Ellicrum{bablute [...]}08:56, 8 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Anastomus oscitans is the main subject in this photo and rest of the species are in background and defocused. There are far more clear picture of those species by this same author (who happens to be my wife), that's the reason. But if you feel those categories are important please go ahead and restore them. Paramanu Sarkar (talk) 05:52, 10 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your reply, I suspected that was why. Since this file is part of a series of similar photos, where the stork was also the main subject, I wondered why this image would have a different categorization for species in the background. As I told you, I will thus at least restore the "specific" categories. Best regards, Ellicrum{bablute [...]}23:37, 11 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
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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) 01:23, 11 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Join the first national Wiki Science Competition 2025 in India from 1 Nov to 15 Dec
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Hello Paramanu Sarkar!,
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:
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The competition will run from 1 November to 15 December 2025.
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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.
As per COM:HIDDENCAT"This category is not shown on its member pages unless the appropriate user preference is set." Which means that all the categories removed from the images you modified should be restored. Please fix your mistakes. Several of my images have been impacted. -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:55, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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★Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted★ Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Saxicola ferreus (Grey Bushchat) - female. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.
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★Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted★ Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Pterocles indicus (Painted Sandgrouse) - female.. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.
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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.
I tried to suggest a smaller sub-species scope that had better VI potential but even that proved to be a stretch. The core problem is that there are many avian photographers at Commons. From tjis, the quality and number of bird images has increased significantly, particularly for the more popular species. Tisha’s image is very good, but there are many others.
In your VI nom, you took exactly the right approach which is to address any issues that are presented. Don’t be discouraged with VI. It has its rules like QI & FP. Do more VI nominations.
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But we cannot be expected to go through so many images. I you create the new categories and put the right images into them, we will trust that you have checked all the relevant images - ignoring obviously poor quality ones. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:41, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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★Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted★ Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Dinopium benghalense (Black-rumped Flameback) - female.. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.
But we cannot be expected to go through so many images. I you create the new categories and put the right images into them, we will trust that you have checked all the relevant images - ignoring obviously poor quality ones. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:41, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
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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!
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