[Wikimedia-l] 2011 Picture of the Year Competition

[Maggie Dennis]

Thank you! I look forward to this every year. :) Our community really
creates and curates some stunning photography and browsing through them is
just breathtaking.

Maggie

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Srikant Kedia <wikiodisha1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year
> competition is now open at last. We're interested in your opinion as to
> which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2011 (not for 2012).
> Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons
> with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote. Check
> your eligibility
> now<
> http://toolserver.org/%7Epathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=&wiki=&event=24
> >
> ! If you meet the criteria, you are eligible to vote.
>
> Nearly 600 images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the
> international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered
> in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to
> breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant
> images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems,
> diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human
> portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.
>
> For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two
> rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many
> images as you like. The first round the top 32 images , by number of votes,
> from any category will go to the final round - the categories are
> irrelevant when it comes to counting the votes. If no picture of one topic
> category is not in the top 32s, that will be also promoted to the Final to
> guarantee a diverse final. In the final round, when a limited number of
> images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become
> the Picture of the Year.
>
> To see the candidate images just go to:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2011/Galleries
>
> Wikimedia Commons is interested in hearing your opinions on our featured
> images of 2011. The deadline for first round voting is 2012-06-04 at 23:59
> (UTC).
>
> Thanks,
> Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:POTY/2011
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Maggie Dennis
Community Liaison
WikimediaFoundation.org