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 <[email protected]>: > 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 > > > > > > -------------------------------------- > Power up the Internet with Yahoo! Toolbar. > http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
