[Commons-l] Picture of the Year 2008 competition Results

[Brianna Laugher]

Some blogs have picked it up:
<http://sustatu.com/1243845647> (in Basque?!)
<http://www.eitb.com/noticias/tecnologia/detalle/160231/una-foto-vasco-elegida-mejor-2008-wikipedia/>
- Spanish

Sustatu also reported on POTY earlier - <http://sustatu.com/1241432977>

If you spot any further coverage it would be nice to also report it on
Flickr - <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelo/265187974/page2/>

cheers
Brianna

2009/6/1 miya <narniancat_miya at yahoo.co.jp>:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The 2008 Picture of the Year competition is now concluded at last,
> and we are happy to announce the results:
>
> WINNER: Horses on Bianditz mountain
>  (File:Biandintz eta zaldiak - modified2.jpg)
>    # 1 -  74 votes in Round 2
>    # 1 - 260 votes in Round 1 - Category:Other animals
>    Taken by Mikel Ortega  Edited by Richard Bartz. .
>
> RUNNER-UP: Fire breathing "Jaipur Maharaja Brass Band" in Chassepierre, Belgium.
> (File:Fire breathing 2 Luc Viatour.jpg)
>    # 2 -  71 votes in Round 2
>    # 1 - 225 votes in Round 1 - Category:People and human activities
>    Taken by Wikimedian Luc Viatour.
>
> 2ND RUNNER-UP: Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse
> (File:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg)
>    # 3 -  46 votes in Round 2
>    # 1 - 170 votes in Round 1 - Category:Constructions
>    Taken by Jack Delano.
>
>
> As we couldn't get the automated server set up,
> a low-tech voting method was used this year, and
> we had a trouble in checking and took so much time.
> (We hope there will be a better system for next year)
>
> In the first round, there were 501 images in the gallery.
> The candidates were all the files which were promoted to
> the Featured Picture of Wikimedia Commons in 2008.
>
> 51 files, the winners and honourable mentions in each category
> went on to the final round to select the picture of the year 2008,
> where 712 voters voted.
>
> Congratulations to all the contributors
> who helped create these beautiful works
> and made them available to the world as free content.
>
> A complete listing of the voting totals is available at
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008/Results .
>
> Thanks to all the voters for participating.
>
>
> Thanks, Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2008
>
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