The results for the 2025 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest are out!

cheers,
Gaurav

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> From: "Md. Zillur Rahman via Commons-l" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Commons-l] Announcing the Winners of Picture of the Year 2025!
> Date: May 3, 2026 at 9:37:16 AM EDT
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> Cc: [email protected], "Md. Zillur Rahman" 
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am so pleased to finally announce the winners for this year's Picture of 
> the Year contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but 
> the community has spoken.
> 
> Here are your top three winning images:
> 
> 🥇 First Place: Damage in the Gaza Strip
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damage_in_Gaza_Strip_during_the_October_2023_-_29.jpg
> 
> 🥈 Second Place: Baby cape fur seal sleeping at Cape Cross
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:014_Baby_cape_fur_seal_sleeping_at_Cape_cross_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg
> 
> 🥉 Third Place: Gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gigantic_jet_photographed_by_Nichole_Ayers_on_the_International_Space_Station,_some_edits.jpg
> 
> You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed 
> here:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2025/Results/All
> 
> I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second 
> round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total 
> votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in 
> perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to 
> see that level of growth and community engagement.
> 
> Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the 
> contest such a huge success this year.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> User:ZI Jony
> POTY Commitee
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