The results for the 2025 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest are out!
cheers, Gaurav > Begin forwarded message: > > 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 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], "Md. Zillur Rahman" > <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <[email protected]> > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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