Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the ninth edition of Picture of
the Year competition is now open.
Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on
Commons during the year 2014 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 are all 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.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories.
Two rounds of voting will be held:
In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30
overall and the most popular image in each category will continue to the
final.
In the final round, you may vote for three images (first vote is counted as
3 points, the second as 2 and the third as 1 point.) to become the Picture
of the Year
Round 1 will end on 31 January 2015. To vote, visit
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014
Thanks
Odisha1
on behalf of Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
Hi everyone!
The 4th annual WikiWomen's History Month is in March, coinciding with
Women's History Month. This event is cross-cultural, international, and
multi-lingual.
Please start planning your events (offline and online) to contribute
content to Wikipedia and related Wikimedia websites about women's history!
You can post your events and find resources on how to implement
edit-a-thons and workshops here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month
Any questions just let me know!
I look forward to your participation!
Sarah
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www.sarahstierch.com
Dear all,
We are excited to share that Tanveer Hasan A.K. has joined CIS-A2K as the
Programme Officer (Institutional Partnerships). We thank all the
Wikimedians from various Indian language communities and Wikimedia India
Chapter EC for taking part in the hiring process. [1]
Tanveer, has been working in the Higher Education sector for the past 3
years and is interested in analyzing the policy framework and its impacts
with particular emphasis on linguistic policies. He is committed to the
cause of spreading and cultivating the Free and Open Knowledge movement in
Indian Languages. He is also interested in the questions of language,
competence and social justice and would like to understand them through his
present engagement at CIS-A2K.
Please join us in congratulating him and wishing him success in his new
role.
Note:
1. http://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-institutional-partnership
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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish