Hi everyone,

The WLM 2020 winner from Iran just won first place in the Commons Picture of the year competition. For the links see below: also, #2 is uploaded through Wiki Loves Earth, and #3 is uploaded through Wiki Loves Africa. 🙂

Best, Ciell

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Dear Wikimedians,

The sixteenth annual Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the winner:?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results

Saint John Church of Sohrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John_Church_of_Sohrol is a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church church in Sohrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrol, Shabestar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabestar, Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran.

Attribution: *Farzin Izaddoust dar https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Farzin_Doust&action=edit&redlink=1 / CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0*

In both rounds, people voted for their favorite media files.?

- In the first round, there were 1050 candidate images. - In the second round, people voted for the 57 finalists (the round 1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category).

In the second round ? the ?three votes? was used ? eligible users could vote for up to 3 finalists ? each of these 3 votes counted equal. There were 2,360 eligible voters in round 1, and 2,971 in round 2.

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content:

1. 374 people voted for the winner, File:Holy SURP Hovhannes Church.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_SURP_Hovhannes_Church.jpg. 2. In second place, 348 people voted for File:The Bug Peek.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Bug_Peek.jpg. 3. In third place, 332 people voted for File:Firefighter, Ashton Bay, March 2017.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firefighter,_Ashton_Bay,_March_2017.jpg .

View the full results https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results .

We also sincerely thank all voters for participating. We invite you to continue to participate in the Wikimedia Commons community by sharing your work https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard. Thanks, the Picture of the Year committee https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Committee

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