Not trying to criticize anyone or anything, but why is this starting so late in the year? I think it would make more sense to have it as early as possible.
2018-06-12 14:53 GMT+02:00 Steinsplitter Wiki <[email protected]>: > Dear Wikimedians, > > We are happy to announce that the 2017 Picture of the Year competition is > now open. > > Picture of the Year 2017 is the twelfth edition of the annual Wikimedia > Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by > users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their > favorite images featured on Commons (FP) during the year 2017, to produce a > single Picture of the Year. > > Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the > international Wikimedia Commons community. From professional animal and > plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, historically relevant > images, images portraying the world's best architecture, 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 (and current) round, you can > vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and > the top ten overall will then make it to the 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 the POTY 2017 page on Wikimedia > Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_ > Year/2017 > > Round 1 will end 24 June 2018, 23:59:59 [UTC]. > > Thanks, > POTY 2017 committee > > Note: Users must vote with an account meeting following requirements: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2017/Rules > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- mvh Jon Harald Søby _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
