Commons talk:Photo challenge/themes/Archive

Themes suggested at Commons talk:Photo challenge/themes that were used in a photo challenge.
The winners can be found at Commons:Photo challenge/Previous.

100 years later

English: Documenting the change over a hundred years (or more) by retaking an old picture (same perspective, same angle, etc.) - it doesn't have to be exactly 100 years, every retake of a picture before xxxx (1915?) is allowed)

proposed by Nattr

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•  Support I like the fact that it stimulates the compositions of images. It is also a very useful tipe of image.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:31, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
•  Support I love this idea, but not sure how the dual images would be added or linked. Perhaps the older image 'must' be sourced from Commons, and then linked on the voting page? Also, this would ensure copyright restrictions for the old image are already cleared. The alternative is contributors loading thier own 100 year old photograph which may significantly reduce the number of contributors. In either case, I would suggest that this theme allow 2 months for contributions rather than the usual one. L-Bit (talk) 01:55, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I think the challenge is difficult enough that further restrictions should be avoided and would therefore be fine with allowing every picture which can be compared with the 100 year old 'original' - even if it's not on commons (making it a two-month challenge is probably also a good idea). If we do decide that the old picture has to be on commons, I'd say that both taking an original from commons as well as uploading it during the challenge is fine. We discussed the theme around August 2014 (here's the discussion), but mainly decided that or older should be included into the challenge descriptions (perhaps even in the title). Anna reg (talk) 10:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

It is quite likely that images published more than 100 years ago will be public domain, and therefore may be uploaded to Commons. I would say that images should either already be here, or uploaded here (from any PD source) during the contest. BD2412 T 15:18, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

•  Support - a very interesting and useful idea. BD2412 T 15:20, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Yann (talk) 00:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 11:50, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Es una idea muy interesante y válida, y considero que es posible que muchos tengan una “foto familiar” guardada de más de 100 años, (o cercano a los 100), que pueda ser escaneada y subida como “trabajo propio”, (hecha por un familiar; abuelo, padre etc.), para luego subir el mismo ángulo actual. Pudiera ser un buen tema para Mayo, o hasta quizás para Mayo-Junio según consideren.Ivan2010 (talk) 12:01, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Nice idea, but I am not sure there are enough old images in the world, beside in large cities. This will keep some users out. IMHO better than 100 years: Some years later .--Slick (talk) 04:25, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Here's what I would do - unless the uploader has dug something out of a very old family album, they are unlikely to own the old image, so allow it as long as it is available on Commons either because it is very old or because it is a picture they themselves (or their ancestor) took many years ago, and are just now uploading. I think it would still be pretty neat to aim for 100 years. Perhaps it doesn't necessarily need to be a picture of a structure - if you have a baby picture of your elderly grandmother, and can post that along with a current picture of the same person taken from the same angle and perspective, that would be fine with me. However, I would add that I do think photography has been a trend long enough for most inhabited places to be reasonably in reach of some previously photographed place or thing for which old pictures are public domain. BD2412 T 14:22, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice idea. As for the old picture, if it's public domain or copyright owned by the contestant then it should be uploaded to Commons, and if not it should exist on the Internet so that it can be linked for comparison. I would support allowing the old picture to be non-photographic (i.e. a painting or drawing), as long as it is depicting a real thing. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 15:01, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Action verbs

illustrating verbs - eg. “sneezing”, or “stealing”

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•  Support Great idea. It can result in some really interesting ideas. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 09:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Nice. I add more examples. --Slick (talk) 04:58, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
•  Support the main target should be technical verbs/actions like polishing, suturing, spading...--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:31, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:32, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Aircraft

Airplanes, helicopters, balloons, zeppelins, hang glider, paragliders, etc.

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 03:13, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 17:02, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:30, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment if this is about vehicles only, is suggest simply calling it aircraft, as that's the general term for them all. If it's about air transport in general, it would need some other examples of e.g. control towers, runways etc. --El Grafo (talk) 13:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

I am more for "aircraft". I wanted to propose one about "airports" so I am fine if we focus on the "infrastructure" theme later.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:07, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Maybe we could/should also make a distinction between aircrafts with some sort of engine and those who rely on wind. I am not really an expert here... whoever is please let us know if it sound too "miscellaneous".--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:28, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

I would rather have a broad theme. It is hard enough for me to take any decent photographs of aircrafts. --Jarekt (talk) 17:28, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

I agree, let's not make it overly complicated. --El Grafo (talk) 15:19, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 15:19, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LotharHakelberg (talk) 03:19, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ibex73 (talk) 15:36, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Analog photography I: Analog photography equipment

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 Support--Jarekt (talk) 11:49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

 Used in April 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 14:42, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Avenue

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•  Support--Céléda (talk) 08:04, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Islander61 (talk) 16:02, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Maimaid (talk) 11:46, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tbiw (talk) 11:55, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Calistemon (talk) 02:57, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support As creator of the category, Category:Roads with palm trees, I have a place in my heart for this. BD2412 T 22:45, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 05:49, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - December - Allée

Arachnids and crustaceans (or, more general, arthropods other than insects)

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I propose this because arachnids are with us everywhere on land. I know we already have lots of photos of them, as the above list of picture of the year candidates show, but it's a big enough theme that more of them can't hurt. – b_jonas 13:53, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Nice idea - Jiel (talk) 21:38, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
  
•  Support - MPF (talk) 12:49, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Might want to give some advice on how to easily distinguish them from insects, though – does the "more than 6 legs" rule of thumb apply to crustaceans? Also, I think I'd prefer arthropods other than insects, as that would include en:Myriapoda as well. --El Grafo (talk) 13:08, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 11:39, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support on of the next one to approve, no doubt.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:55, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

FYI, I've also informed the village pump of wikispecies. I see some of uploaders don't know the name of the species they're submitting, so every help is welcome for better titles and descriptions.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:24, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

 Used in September 2016 --Alexmar983 (talk) 01:15, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Archeology

Old sites, excavations, ruins, archeological parcs.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:43, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support That is a very good idea. --Jarekt (talk) 16:47, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:10, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I like it very much. specially in view of Timbuktu etc. Levin Holtkamp (talk) 12:24, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:15, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 20:55, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --- [Tycho] ^talk 22:13, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Ruthven (msg) 13:00, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Used for Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - February - Archaeology --Jarekt (talk) 03:52, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Architectural Iron

Iron fences, finials, hand rails, window bars; any unique and interesting photos of iron made for architectural design and or usage. No statues. (Z28scrambler (talk) 22:54, 2 July 2017 (UTC))

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•  Support I see no problem with that.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:16, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

I add a gallery. IMHO, this theme should be proposed only after the one about balconies, and distant from that one about doors.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:28, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 02:12, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LotharHakelberg (talk) 03:21, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 20:56, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support very interesting idea. --El Grafo (talk) 09:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Back side

Take a picture of the back side of things, the side you normally do not see. I am thinking of the backside of paintings, the backside of houses, the backside of chairs, the underside of tables, the backside of your TV, the backside (inner side) of clothing. Most pictures here are beautiful, but the information on the backside often will be relevant.

I do not know if I have to sign this suggestion, but for reference: Elly (talk) 00:13, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

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•  Support great idea, Elly! I tried to find some example images, please feel free to enhance the gallery. --El Grafo (talk) 14:03, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivan2010 12:51, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support great idea, it stimulates a different perspective.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:32, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
•  Support You have my support. Of course, expect me to photograph the rear of buses for this. :D 00Rsrikanth05 (talk) 09:58, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Useful for complete documentation of objects. BD2412 T 16:58, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Slick (talk) 04:27, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

 Used in April 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 14:42, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Bad weather

English: Bad weather: Pick a day where you normally wouldn't go outside unless you really had to. Grab whatever camera you dare to take and head out to snap some pictures anyway. Raining cats and dogs? That's your day. Fog so thick you won't notice the difference between color and black&white? Bingo. Wind so strong your tripod would tip over? Guess you'll have to shoot handheld. Rules: Sky must be overcast (flat light), no "sun peaking through the clouds", no "glistening water droplets after the rain", no sunsets, no rainbows etc. Also no "long exposures of lightning in the distance at night", that's much too beautiful. This is about adjectives like ugly, cold and wet after all.

Deutsch: Sauwetter: Such dir einen Tag aus, an dem du normalerweise keinen Fuß vor die Tür setzen würdest. Schnapp dir, was auch immer du dich an Kamera mitzunehmen traust und geht trotzdem los. Es schüttet wie aus Kübeln? Das ist dein Tag. Du siehst vor lauter Nebel kaum die Hand vor Augen? Bingo. Der Wind ist so stark, dass er dein Stativ umblasen würde? Schieß halt aus der Hüfte. Regeln: Der Himmel muss vollständig bedeckt sein, keine Bilder à la "einzelner Sonnenstrahl durchdringt die Wolken" oder "glitzernde Wassertropfen nach dem Regen", keine Sonnenaufgänge, Regenbogen, etc. Auch keine Lanzeitaufnahmen von Blitzen bei Nacht, das wäre viel zu hübsch. Hier geht's um Adjektive wie garstig, kalt und nass.

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•  Info Just in case it's not obvious: This is of course intended to be a theme for taking new pictures, not uploading stuff from your archive. It's a challenge after all ;-) --El Grafo (talk) 12:48, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
•  Request It has been pointed out that this challenge will need carefully translated descriptions, so if you're able to translate it into any language, please don't hesitate to do so. --El Grafo (talk) 14:07, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

 Used in December 2014 --Anna reg (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Balconies

See Category:Balconies. Proposed by Alexmar983

Many of the images in the category are not great. We can do better. It's important that users learn to focus on good pictures of details, and balconies are a possible example.

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Noone? Maybe balconies are boring...--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:04, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support not especially thrilling at first sight, but let's see what people make of it. A solid, straight-forward theme that would make sense to run along something more fancy that might not be for everyone. --El Grafo (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:11, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support LotharHakelberg (talk) 03:22, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Nxr-at (talk) 10:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Nicholas Gemini (talk) 09:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Finderhannes (talk) 19:36, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
• Jarekt posted Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - October - Balconies. – b_jonas 16:33, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Barns

Barns are usually used in agriculture and farming for storage. They are located worldwide. Some barns have unique paint schemes or are located in very remote and picturesque settings. Some though may be located in urban or cityscape settings.

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•  Support good educational value - MPF (talk) 14:04, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I agree.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:26, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

horse barns? monastic barns? Maybe we can call it "barns and stables", so people can go and shot at both in many places? In small farms they are a single structure sometimes--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:53, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:15, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --ibex73 20:15, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Reminds people of the olden days--York12321 10:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivan2010 ^(talk) 19:55, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

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Bathrooms and toilets

Believe or not, that's challenging and maybe even necessary. Open the page Bathroom and take a look... most of the images used for the galleries have low resolution. I don't think we have a lot of high quality images of this topic. I can understand that there is always something more interesting than them around... but in the final result is that in the end most of our pictures in the subcategories are of poor quality.

I think the result would be useful and probably with some rare, funny, technical or unexpected output.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:29, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

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•  Neutral I agree with the justification that it's necessary, but it seems to me like we already have a lot of decent pictures about bathrooms. – b_jonas 16:26, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ibex73 (talk) 15:53, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Definitely, we need more higher quality, unique, and interesting pictures of bathrooms and toilets. Even though there are so many pictures of toilets and etcetera, we need better pictures. --Atomicdragon136 (talk) 22:13, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yes! The world has so much variety that needs documentation. --Trougnouf (talk) 19:14, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Finderhannes (talk) 19:38, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Too much pictures don't harm anyone. It's good to have more options but I think we should vote very carefully because so it's easier for the admin to prioritize and the process is faster as we need more theme and more pictures on this platform. 139.153.58.11 13:29, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Added a few more exterior pictures of public toilets to the samples, to make the theme more accessible for people like me who don't like taking photos inside a public bathroom. Also added some other interesting pictures. I commented out one photo that seemed redundant, but if you think it should be there, be bold. – b_jonas 19:34, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - January - Bathrooms

Beginning and End

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 Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:40, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

comments? :)--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:49, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

 Support Considero que puede ser una idea interesante que moverá a la inspiración y creación.--Ivan2010 ^(talk) 19:50, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

 Comment "Beginning and End", or "Beginning or End"? The first two sample images depict both; the rest just one or the other. Images that depict both would be more interesting and more challenging, and if that is the intent then it should be made clear in the instructions when/if this makes it to the fore. --Kbh3^rdtalk 18:49, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

it is the difficult one I guess, and this is going to be a two-month challenge. I don't dislike it per se, but if we accept we should update the gallery, I agree with you.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:36, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

We could accept composite image, like before and after a certain event. That's a possibility.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:40, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

A tombstone with a date of birth and death, and a man with grandson. Better?--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:05, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

An image of a dead-end train or tram station?--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:48, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Start-finish line at Olympic stadion.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:24, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

start and end minute of a timer---Alexmar983 (talk) 13:03, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support--Finderhannes (talk) 12:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support nice idea. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  15:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 03:17, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - April - Beginning and end --Jarekt (talk) 03:19, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Birds and Bird watching

Birds and Bird watching

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See also Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 21:14, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Question is this supposed to be about photos of birds or photos of people watching birds? --El Grafo (talk) 08:43, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

a question for you, Achim Raschka, Anna reg (talk) 10:43, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

I understand this as simple "birds" --Slick (talk) 04:37, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

I understood it the other way: people watching birds (and related aspects)--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:18, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

I would propose to require bird identification --Jarekt (talk) 14:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

 Comment 'Birds' is a huge subject and perhaps could be made more specific, thus having the oportunity to re-use the term "birds" for other challenges. i.e.; 'Birds flying', 'Birds feeding', 'Blue Birds' etc. I also agree with Jarekt that the unloader needs to specify the species, not only to ensure correct categorization, but also to encourage them to identify the creature for both their, and our education. But as a whole, birds are great photographic subjects and should have a challenge.  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

 Support but  Comment concur it needs to be more targeted; the ideal would be "identified photos, in the wild, of species with few or no images already at Commons" - so Cygnus olor or Pavo cristatus would not be eligible, but Mergus squamatus or Afropavo congensis would be. - MPF (talk) 13:06, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - May - Birds in their habitat --Jarekt (talk) 15:53, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Black and White

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 Support -- ChristianFerrer 16:47, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 17:35, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support very "classical"--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

 Used in March 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 14:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Blades

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Originally: Razors From the safety razors of XX century to now. But ancient razor too; maybe a lot will be Gillette --Assianir (talk) 09:56, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support the idea of razors. if anyone thinks is too specific, we can enlarge the theme. --Alexmar983 (talk) 10:44, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support but I would widen it to knives, swords, etc. --Jarekt (talk) 15:57, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

So "blade, knifes, swords and razors"... does any en-N have a more fitting title?--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:33, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

"Blades" might be the most generic. --Jarekt (talk) 17:34, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Any comments after the change?--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:52, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support not especially thrilling at first sight, but let's see what people make of it. A solid, straight-forward theme that would make sense to run along something more fancy that might not be for everyone. --El Grafo (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Question The example images show old tools. Is this the intention, or do you want to cover modern bladed tools too? – b_jonas 12:30, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

There was no intention b_jonas, you can change the gallery if you want.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:24, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Probably all types of blades, there is an image of a modern box cutter and blender blade --Atomicdragon136 (talk) 15:25, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

•  Support This works for me. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:12, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Teemu Väisänen (talk) 21:27, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

 Oppose – Shillings1005 (talk) 03:23, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - March - Blades

Blue

Proposed by Gozitano

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We rejected "pink" (I liked it) and also "green and black" before because people did not like colors as a theme anymore, and now we try "blue"? If we selected types of colors again, what about something even less common? Such as "orange", "purple", "50 shades of gray"... :D? --Alexmar983 (talk) 05:04, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

• Hello and sorry, I didn't see that the "pink" proposition has been rejected. In this case I shouldn't proposed "blue" which is very common, I agree. "Orange", "Pink" or "Yellow" should be much more interesting than "Blue". For me, you can close my proposition. --Gozitano (talk) 07:28, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Don't be sorry Gozitano, I am just making fun of the "possible and proved incoherence" occurred in this talk over the years. We can keep this one and see what people think now. No real problem with me.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:40, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Support support this or other color theme. --Jarekt (talk) 16:53, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I like this kind of challenge, it forces you to get creative. Also, the similar Red and white worked our pretty well. --El Grafo (talk) 14:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 05:45, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:12, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Great color! --- [Tycho] ^talk 10:19, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - January - Blue --Jarekt (talk) 16:07, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Bones

Proposed by Gozitano

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•  Support let's get dark... which one will be selected first? this one or blood?--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:19, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support That's gonna be a macabre challenge! ☠☠ --Jacek79 (talk) 21:29, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

I want it for November, Halloween and the Day of the Deads. This one or blood :D but this one is better, IMHO.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:04, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

• I am tempted to say that we should combine this with blood - "blood and bone" as a Halloween challenge. I would do such a theme for October, not November, though, since October is usually the month associated with Halloween. BD2412 T 14:41, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Darn it, October is also in theory the month with the eye care day, we can't have all this "human-body-oriented" proposal...--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:18, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 12:18, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I think this is a fantastic topic for the challenge.--Nguyen2007
•  Support – b_jonas 10:07, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I think this is a good topic too. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 01:47, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Adding few more example pictures. – b_jonas 19:34, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

used at Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - November - Bones

Cables and wires

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•  Support I like it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:25, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:13, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support, but without limiting it to electrical and telecommunications wires - most entries are likely to be those anyway. BD2412 T 14:42, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:48, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 02:29, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Nice theme --- [Tycho] ^talk 10:20, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

 Used in November 2017 --Jarekt (talk) 13:05, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Canyons and gorges

Canyons and gorges ; proposed by Alexmar983

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•  Support -- Jarekt (talk) 15:35, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like the idea. It would get me and I would think others out of my area and go exploring. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 01:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- ThomasLendt (talk) 16:11, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Not my subject, but a fine challenge, worldwide. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:28, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Seefan 2012 (talk) 15:22, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 18:53, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:41, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment I added 5 more images. – b_jonas 12:34, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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Castles, Fortresses and Strongholds

Castles, Fortresses and Strongholds (military complexes, castle ruins, fortifications, water castles);

Originally proposed by F. Riedelio and approved by Jarekt but due to lack of support in months despite many users commenting on this page, I propose the theme "castle and palaces" with a more specific military focus. We can do "palace" as a separate theme.

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Anyone?--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:05, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Z28scrambler (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
• Maybe not now, during or just after the WLM contest. MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:50, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 02:29, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ibex73 (talk) 15:38, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 09:04, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Nicholas Gemini (talk) 09:39, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - August - Castles and fortifications.

Caves, mines and sinkholes

As a spin off of Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Earth_Science, I think we can propose some new themes related to the subject. I suggest here a single competition for natural and artificial structures because territories may be very different around the world and this increases the chances that everyone has something to shoot at. We can split them further if you prefer.but in the end we will have overlapping themes soon or later, so I don't think we should worry to be too specific at every competition. --Alexmar983 (talk) 06:56, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:25, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support, but maybe consider restricting the mining part to en:Underground_mining or split it off into a separate mining theme? --El Grafo (talk) 13:00, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

can't we just do this and than suggest the specific mining part after a while? in the end, we kinda repropose themes, we just merge or split or enlarge them, it's how this page seems to work. I have no problem, if a second comment agree we split now. Otherwise, we keep it as it is and than I suggest a new one after this is done.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:48, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

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 Used in August 2017--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:03, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Cemeteries

Photos of cemeteries, of any size. No photos of individual graves or tombs (unless it is a single grave cemetery,) but photo overview of entire cemetery or sections thereof.(Z28scrambler (talk) 22:46, 2 July 2017 (UTC))

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We had already cemeteries and ghostly places years ago, but we were going for "bones and blood" this autumn. So this one is on the architechtural/landscape side. Actually, I would really prefer photos of the single tombs, they are much more informative than panoramic views of cemetery.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Tombs and memorials of famous people. That is, people with a wikipedia article. We could gear that, what about this specific idea?--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:07, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

How about architecturally unique Tombs or mausoleums?Z28scrambler (talk) 21:37, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

yes, sure. I mean the single tomb IMHO is important for two reason: the tomb itself (style) or the person buried inside, so it is ok for me. We could do this even this November if people show enough support.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:20, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

• Maybe Cemeteries, tombs and architectural memorials? --MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:53, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, something like that. I can use d:Property:P1801 to show some list of missing plates. Just as a simple suggestion. We have to start to show how wikidata can be used, that could be an occasion.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:40, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support I would allow photographs of single graves, although they probably have little chances of winning. --Jarekt (talk) 14:37, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

 Used in Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - November - Graves and Cemeteries --Jarekt (talk) 13:22, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Children’s games

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•  Support I would extend it to "Children at Play" --Jarekt (talk) 16:32, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
•  SupportIbex73 (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment This looks like the challenge of April 2016 Jiel (talk) 21:42, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Christmas

Christmas (Christmas decorations, Christmas markets)

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•  Support Good idea--Ermell (talk) 20:28, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Right for next December I guess.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:11, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support if we change it to "holidays" or "Holiday traditions" which could be related to any established holiday from any religion. Jarekt (talk) 04:00, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

The challenge was here for months, if this had been a real issue, there was plenty of time to point out. I accepted to change crosses (a geometrical theme rather than a religious one) because we needed more symbols in any case there was all the time to further discuss. We had to listen to doubt about alcohol beverages for muslim countries even if 99% of our uploader come from places where alcohol is legal and now this? I think we offended more Australians or Argentinians when we planned "Summer" when it's winter there. Also, I could point out that religious people find contradictory to associate Christmas with this commercial stuff. Christmas is basically not an established holiday from any religion as it used to be. And most of the pictures will probably show non-religious traditions in any case. A Christmas tree in China BTW is no "Holiday tradition". It's a Christmas tradition in its commercial and social meaning, but there is no holiday. Yet they put decorations and similar. What about that? A Russian, and we have Russian uploaders, would be surprised probably because their Christmas is in January. And they won't probably fell respected or helped de facto just because you change a name. I mean... If we start we never finish here. If some US jew want to upload a photo of Hanukkah, I say keep those for other challenges and put a picture of your family eating Chinese food on the 25th (cliché based on American movies)... it is even more interesting. I encourage to propose wider title to encourage uploaders but there is no need here, Christmas is universal and people have tons of possible picture.

Here is my "vision": if we want to be more inclusive, what if we make a challenge about ramadan this June. And next January we propose one about the end of the year including the Chinese calendar... and in July we proposed national holidays as it is a very common month for them, and so on... let's go that way.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:27, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

• I would  Support changing this to Winter holidays, to cover overlapping holidays in the time period. Hanukkah coincides with Christmas this year (it doesn't always), and there is also Kwanzaa. Let's not be too exclusive here. BD2412 T 16:51, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

I start to think that's some long-term effect of politically correctness... All challenges exclude something and therefore statistically someone. You know what? I am starting to be less inclusive myself now. Much better to have clear titles and more challenges than this scenario, on the long term. So far I was supporting less specific titles because I was worried there wasn't enough pictures in general on certain theme, but if the effect is that with a challenge that is going to have easy pictures we enlarge the platform even more, than form now on I think I am starting to be mean.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:55, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Used in Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - December - Holidays --Jarekt (talk) 13:54, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Clocks on public buildings

Uhren an öffentlichen Gebäuden; proposed by Maimaid

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•  SupportIbex73 (talk) 21:17, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Would be less emphasis on the skill of the photographer than the architect, but nevertheless would make an interesting challenge L-Bit (talk) 03:58, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Could be interesting.Reykholt (talk) 10:00, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:42, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment Problems with lack of freedom of panorama in some countries (e.g. France) - MPF (talk) 14:03, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
• I come from a country with no FOP and the majority of buildings with clock are very old, so I don't see the practical issue here. Also, Belgium approved a new law so there's a little bit more freedom than in the past in the world. We've already accepted "fountains and wells", we can clearly accept some panorama-related competitions once in a while, I think we are prepared to deal with that. So as I did with "tower", I also  Support--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:08, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support--Ibex73 (talk) 05:54, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Estoy a Favor porque pienso que puede ser interesante y podrá permitir el aumento en Commons de ese tipo de fotos, donde la arquitectura y el objeto reloj se presentan juntos, además de contribuir a mostrar instituciones, edificios o arquitecturas de antaño o actuales, que usan ese tipo de combinación.--Ivan2010 ^(talk) 19:30, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

I've just discovered Category:Clocks by time, I'll try to use it for the uploaded files.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:23, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support--Gozitano (talk) 08:25, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Ok because "numbers" gave as an output enough images of clocks, we (I?) decided to postpone this theme of another month, but next time should be ok.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

 Used in June 2017--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:57, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Closed or closing commercial activities

A possible reference category is Abandoned shops

When a shop closes, a change is happening. Gentrification, change in demographics, different consumers trends, evolution of technology, removal of not-so-old architectural styles (before that they are considered valuable for preservation), catastrophic events... a closed shop or workshop can symbolize all of that. That's why pictures of old or abandoned commercial activities are potentially useful. For example: only some articles of defunct chains have pictures of abandoned shops. We also have too many from U.S. compared to the rest of the world.

If we don't take some of these pictures once in a while, few other people will do, statistically.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:55, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:09, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support, but propose maybe moving up one level in the hierarchy to Urban decay? --El Grafo (talk) 16:21, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

A closing shop is not necessarly a sign of decay, I was more interested in the whole possible scenarios with a strong focus on the shop itself (especially the brand, when present). If I could, I would keep the way it is and after this, I would do "urban decay" too, because I like it. Maybe we have enough picture of it, I don't know, it looks like a theme that people like. But really, I am inspired to open another challenge with that title. But let's listen to other "voters".--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:29, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

 Support Ok, so I didn't see much point in this before, but now someone came up and said he has a lot of documentary photos of cinemas after they have closed, and asked whether he should upload it. So let's encourage this activity. – b_jonas 10:35, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

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• I read on the national press there are also instagram and facebook group. good! thsi will be a fitting theme.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:18, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

used for Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - February - Closed businesses--Jarekt (talk) 03:55, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Collections, Collecting and Collectables

Photos of collections of stamps, coins, baseball cards, antiques, toys, cameras, license plates, etc. (see en:List of collectibles for more ideas). Must follow copyright rules by subject matter, which could be tricky at the times. Possibly extend it to photograph of individual collectibles. --Jarekt (talk) 18:48, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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Combustion engines

A picture of a car engine. Doorknob 747 (talk) 13:36, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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  • Actually, could we make one for all kinds of engines other than those of cars? I'd like to see ship engines, but also better educative pictures of interiors of washing machines and similar, because we really lack those. – b_jonas 13:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

I kinda agree so I boldly change it to "engines", formally still including cars. But I use no car images.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:50, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:07, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Question Referring to en:Engine#Terminology: is this for combustion-leads-to-rotation kinds of engines only or can we also include things like electric motors, en:Pump-jets or other fancy stuff? If the former, that should be made more clear; if the latter, I'd go for something like engines, motors and propulsion. --El Grafo (talk) 09:57, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

We have electric motor as a different challenge, so I'd say it is mainly "Heat engines". I never though about it but that's how I would schedule it. So in my view the two challenges are "electric motors" and "Heat engines" (plus or minus cars if we want an easy or a complex challenge), and they should in any case be proposed at a certain distance of at least 2-3 months.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:31, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Whoops, didn't realize the electric motors above. Next step: en:Combustion engines in general or limited to en:Internal combustion engines? --El Grafo (talk) 11:10, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

IMHO, not everyone know the different types of engines. So I would focus on a more generic theme (Combustion engine), as long as it is "kindly suggested" to avoid cars. We can do the more refined challenge later, based on the results of this one.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:39, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 Support agreed, let's go for Combustion engines. --El Grafo (talk) 13:05, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

ok, I change the title in few weeks if noone opposes.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:16, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

changed. later I move it to "C".--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:30, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support as it's now combustion engines in general, not just car engines. I'd still prefer it as a single theme together with electric engines, but support either way. – b_jonas 16:36, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

used at Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - January - Engines and motors

Concert photography

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•  Support but "only" if we do more than "concerts". I would include "open air" performances such as theatre or dance.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:51, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support, but don't dilute it with theatre or dance as suggested above. --P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:59, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:08, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose you need a special permission for publish of images of commercial concerts. This is strictly necessary. (see: de:Wikipedia:Festivalsommer). --Atamari (talk) 10:42, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

I don't like to say the word copyright but I do confess that one reason for my proposed dilution is that statistically it increased the possibility to get images--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:13, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Commons:Copyright_rules_by_subject_matter#Concert_photography lists your concert photographs as OK for upload. I have been to concerts where I was not allowed to use a some types of cameras or lenses, but I was never told that I can take a photograph but not publish it. Any such restrictions will fall into "House Rules" category, which Commons does not care about. --Jarekt (talk) 12:24, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Maybe we could make it a 2 or 3 month challenge or make an early pre-announcement go give people time to get the paperwork done (where required). --El Grafo (talk) 12:57, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

the early warning is given sometimes here (see the ones about musical instruments) or can be understood informally following the discussions. I keep saying we are probably doing this one in the "summer", for example. So we can just write it here and people should be prepared. Someone can also write in the talk that "there is a big event on..." and we schedule it accordingly. About 2 or 3 months challenges... that's a new one! But if we write here in April "we do this one in August" I think everyone has all the time in the world in the previous months to organize their activities. And i can inform some local village pump too.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:11, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Support if this could be expanded to include concert, theatre and dance. Would 'performance art' be too broad? MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:16, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - July - Concert photography

Corroded objects

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•  Support Actually, I'm quite surprised nobody has proposed this before. That's such a common theme in photography that it's kind of become a cliché by now … --El Grafo (talk) 16:17, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

really?--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:25, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Not sure it you're being ironic, but if not have a look here:

• Flickr group "Rust-Art" 5k pictures
• Flickr group "Rust in peace" 5.6k pictures
• Flickr group "rust bucket" 88k pictures
• Flickr group "wonders of oxidation" 48k pictures
• more rust related groups on Flickr

So yeah, that's really a popular thing ;-) --El Grafo (talk) 16:36, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

No El Grafo I was really surprised. BTW since you know the "mileu", could "broken object" also be a thing for photographers? I was thinking about suggesting it, because for obvious reason we have more pictures of integer objects, so maybe one challenge to improve the quality of images of broken objects is not a bad idea.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:42, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@Alexmar983: Why not, I think that could work quite well … --El Grafo (talk) 16:09, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 17:04, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support PumpkinSky talk 16:16, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:19, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

  I added more examples. Feel free to remove any you don't like. – b_jonas 18:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

 Done Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - October - Corroded objects – b_jonas 16:43, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Curves and Spirals

Deutsch: Im Februar-Wettbewerb Kurven und Spiralen geht es um gebogene und gekrümmte Linien in allen Formen - möglichst Bildausfüllend!

English: The February challenge Curves and spirals features arched and curved lines in all forms - if possible filling the entire image!

Français : Le défi de février, Courbes et spirales, met en scène les lignes arrondies, les arcs, les spirales, dans toutes leurs formes - si possible en plein champ (gros-plan) !

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Curves and Spirals

Deutsch: Kurven und Spiralen geht es um gebogene und gekrümmte Linien in allen Formen - möglichst Bildausfüllend!

English: Curves and spirals features arched and curved lines in all forms - if possible filling the entire image!

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•  Support -- Calistemon (talk) 08:26, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --ThomasLendt (talk) 19:59, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --F. Riedelio (talk) 05:58, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:31, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
•  Support '''''<span style="color:green, text-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.1em gray">--[[Utilisateur:Nicolas de Bourgoing|Nicolas de Bourgoing]] ^{([[Discussion utilisateur:Nicolas de Bourgoing|&#128172;]])} </span>''''' (talk) 15:57, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support This theme could be interesting as it will provide a wide variety of submissions - nature, man made objects, architectural, etc. Smaller objects captured in closeup could fill the image and larger scale objects could be equally impressive. --User:Cbuske46 ([[User talk:Cbuske46talk]]) 00:26, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - October - Curves and spirals

Demonstrations and protests

In the days of protests against police brutality, Black Lives Matter protests, Hong Kong protests, protests related to COVID-19 pandemic, I think it is time for a challenge featuring current and past protests and demonstrations.

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Demolition

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•  Support -- Céléda (talk) 06:43, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Calistemon (talk) 08:28, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Seeing some example images that aren't residential buildings, maybe widen to demolition of buildings? -- 67.184.0.138 18:40, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

• Demolition contractors need to be careful. Mpho Dan (talk) 18:46, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

•  Support - a very good topic Tbiw (talk) 02:40, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 09:24, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. Great and suitable theme for my country. But I'll rename the topic into "Demolition of buildings". --Brateevsky {talk} 14:10, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment I've boldly changed the header from "Demolition of Houses" to "Demolition" alone - there is no ambiguity here. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:34, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I have so much pictures of demolition ! No its a very interesting subjet, present in the whole world, and there is a good idea behind. '''''<span style="color:green, text-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.1em gray">--[[Utilisateur:Nicolas de Bourgoing|Nicolas de Bourgoing]] ^{([[Discussion utilisateur:Nicolas de Bourgoing|&#128172;]])} </span>''''' (talk) 15:55, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - December - Demolition

Day and night

English: Two pictures taken and uploaded during the contest period showing the same location or object from the same vantage point, once during daylight and once at night. They can be combined into a single file or presented as separate images (in fact it would be preferable for usage that they be available separately). This photo challenge would probable be best around the Equinox, when days and nights are of equal length, so that contributors in both hemispheres will have an equal opportunity to capture the daytime and nighttime images within a reasonable span.

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 Support wow, that's an original idea unlike most of the topics, and one that allows for good photos. – b_jonas 15:23, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

 Support very ambitious --Neptuul (talk) 07:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

 Support would be very interesting --Ermell (talk) 20:31, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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•  Support interesting possibilities... (and very nice sample gallery ;->) Anna reg (talk) 10:52, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support As Anna says L-Bit (talk) 02:46, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Neutral I am not sure with this theme we will collect a lot of images with high EV. Some of the examples have no EV in my opinion. --Slick (talk) 04:32, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Do it yourself - making things at home

Documenting handicrafts and different ways to produce things at home seems an interesting challenge to me. I did not include any kind of needlework, as I proposed this as a seperate challenge, but of course the two could be combined. --Kritzolina (talk) 12:18, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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•  Support -- Geek3 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support, good theme for a pandemic. —Granger (talk  · contribs) 22:40, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support –– Shillings1005 (talk) 01:57, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support –– F. Riedelio (talk) 05:52, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Neutral -- Céléda (talk) 16:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support-- Horchatamivida (talk) 14:23, 1 Mai 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- ThomasLendt (talk) 15:47, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
•  Support –– Tbiw (talk) 23:33, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - June - Do it yourself

Domestic appliances

I'd like informative pictures for education, showing how they work or what they look like inside, not advertisment style pictures. Please be careful with the machines, don't put yourself or others into danger to make such photos. Washing machines, kitchen stoves and ovens (whether gas or electric), water boilers, hair dryers, etc. – b_jonas 13:59, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support I would add "old and new", since it might be interesting to see some antiques here. --Jarekt (talk) 15:34, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Sure: labels, plugs, engines...--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:06, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support--Assianir (talk) 07:08, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Used in Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - December - Home appliances --Jarekt (talk) 13:56, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Doors and Doorways

From wood, glass, metal or whatever material, unique, ornate, or different doors or doorways are found on many different buildings or structures. (Z28scrambler (talk) 23:11, 2 July 2017 (UTC))

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photo_challenge/de#2019_%E2%80%93_August_%E2%80%93_Doors_and_Doorways current challenge 08/2019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Levin Holtkamp (talk • contribs) 17:20, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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 Support We did mailboxes, we will make balconies or keyholes probably and we can make doors. I put some other examples.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:47, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

What about details of doors in the gallery?--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:48, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

 Support There is significant diversity of doors around the world. Jsamwrites (talk) 06:12, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

 Support --Ermell (talk) 21:00, 29 November 2017 (UTC)  Support --El Grafo (talk) 10:01, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Support--Finderhannes (talk) 19:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I used to be reluctant in supporting the topics that I photograph too, because of conflict of interest, but in retrospect, that's probably not a good strategy. I'll start to support them now, I can still skip nominating my photos. – b_jonas 10:12, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
• I added two more photos of church doors. – b_jonas 01:04, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

 Support Balabinrm (talk) 08:59, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

 Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 08:50, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Support--ThomasLendt (talk) 16:12, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

 Support I have lots of images of doorknobs, locks and keys, and the like, but nigh zero complete doors. No conflict therefore. Time to unpack my equipment. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:14, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Dressing up

Deutsch: Verkleidung - in diesem Thema geht es um Kostümierungen - unabhängig vom Anlass. Karneval/Faschings-Verkleidungen werden ebenso gesucht wie Ball- oder Hochzeitskleider, spezielle Kleidung für Tanzveranstaltungen sowie Masken, Kopfbedeckungen, Frisuren, Perücken oder Schminke.

English: Dressing up - this theme features dressing up - no matter the occasion. The theme includes carnival, balls, weddings and freestyle events as well as masks, headgear, hairstyles, wigs or make-up.

Français : Le défi de février, En costume, met en scène le fait d'être habillé, déguisé, pour une occasion spéciale, quelle qu'elle soit : carnaval, bal masqué, mariage, concert, etc, incluant masques et maquillage, coiffures et perruques, ...

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 Used in February 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 14:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Drones

We are only now starting to see Aerial Photos from Drones on commons inviting Drone users to a Challenge will obtain some really unique low altitude perspectives for the site --WPPilot (talk) 07:10, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support - --WPPilot (talk) 07:10, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I agree this would be great. However it probably applies to a different set of photographers than those who frequently participate at PC or other forums on Commons. The entry level for creating quality images is quite high/expensive and requires some experience. But it would be a wonderful opportunity to attract new photographers, if it could be coordinated/advertised for a month's challenge. -- Colin (talk) 12:45, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - The US has already millions of Drones registered with the FAA. These users are already flying and taking photos that, under the law can not be used for any commercial use, yet many do as new FAA laws take effect. Cost of entry for anything that might make FP is about what any camera that would make a FP would need seems about the same really. Most drones can produce a QI, A Full Frame DSLR & Lens is not less then 3k today so I think its making the public aware of this channel for exposing work most of them never considered.. --WPPilot (talk) 18:51, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support We need more drone photographers. Drones are expensive though (sorry to those who can't afford a drone), but I think with this theme, we would make our current photographers try another type of photography, which is this. And if more and more photographers try this, then we would have a lot of aerial photos. --★ Poké⁹⁵ 06:46, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:34, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support seems fun.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:15, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support as a user of the drone of the Wikipedia Community Space in Cologne. Raymond 14:21, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Drones are a new type of photography, and it would be good to encourage it. Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:11, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
• There is no doubt about support, but what about the moment of the year to schedule this challenge? I'll try to ask people in national chapter to spread the news, I hope we can have challengers from all over the word, and I guess this is possible, I've also seen drone photos from the Southern hemisphere recently on commons... It was a grant in South Africa on meta or something like that. I think that maybe a mid-season could be the best option? I mean something around April? Of course people can use old image and they can start now to make tests, but a good part of upload are in real timer and I just assume that rainy or cold winter days in the northern hemisphere are not the best choice, right? Correct me if I am wrong, I am not an expert at all. I mean one thing is wearing a coat when you take picture of buildings, but sending an expensive equipment up in the air during rain sounds risky, right? --Alexmar983 (talk) 05:54, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

I start to spam the news.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:55, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

We can find online some association of drones. I can send some email when it is scheduled. Why not?--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:21, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

 Used in January 2017--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:38, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Earth Science

Earth Science

English: Field images and conceptual cartoons that show atmospheric/environmental/geological/geodynamic processes that shape the Earth at any spatial or time scales. Geotagged field photographs of scientifically significant landscapes or outcrops are particularly welcome. This call aims at bringing the recent en:Wiki Loves Earth contest closer to the scientific community in the Wikimedia projects.

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•  Support Very appropriate, the Earth Sciences are very disadvantaged but there are many good images in Commons. --PePeEfe (talk) 18:12, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support useful.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• strong  Support, but minus the cartoons (photo challenge). --El Grafo (talk) 14:18, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support very useful, either pictures of outcrops and field details, either of thin sections--Bramfab (talk) 15:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Info I've added some quick examples, please feel free to replace them with better ones. --El Grafo (talk) 16:04, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment I think Colin has a point here. The scope of this theme is extremely broad, it might backfire. Maybe cut it down into several smaller but better defined challenges? --El Grafo (talk) 15:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

 Support would be very interesting, maybe smaller (outcrops or geotopes or sources or spings or erosion) --Geolina ^{mente et malleo} ✎ 13:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

 Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

•  Support. Interesting and not too specific. Rozmador (talk) 21:48, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

well, we agreed it was too specific so that's not something we can work on.--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:27, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Very useful. Trace (talk) 09:09, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

How to

So I suppose we should make a list of the similar proposals and do at least 4-5 of those competitions over the following months before we file this one in the archive right? --Alexmar983 (talk) 11:17, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Similar competitions are:

• 2016-06: Commons:Photo_challenge/2016_-_June_-_Rock_formations
• 2016-11: Commons:Photo_challenge/2016_-_November_-_Rocks_and_Minerals
• TBD (proposed 2016-07): Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Weather_phenomena (it is partially related)
• 2017-08: Commons:Photo_challenge/2017_-_August_-_Caves,_Mines_and_Sinkholes
• TBD (proposed 2016-08): Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Canyons_and_gorges
• TBD (proposed 2016-09): Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Fossils_and_Sediments
• TBD (proposed 2016-09): Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Extreme and unusual weather phenomena (it is partially related)
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I think that as soon as we (=I?) put some old proposals in the archive, I could introduce something new like "Mines, sinkholes and caves". And later something like "coastlines and seashores", "fossils and sediments" "Canyons and gorges"... what do you think? Do we have to be even more specific?--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:34, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

You do not have to put old proposals in the archive to propose new ones. But I agree we might have to shelf this one and do several narrower ones. All that you suggested sound good. --Jarekt (talk) 02:35, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

I don't but I kinda prefer. Of course, if you want to propose them before I do, help yourself.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:30, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

I moved them here as subsections.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:33, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - June - Geology

Electric Motors

Motors or generators that run on or produce electric current. From power plant generators, toy slot car motors, washing machines, rail or tram motors even electric cars and road vehicles.

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•  Support to be scheduled far away from the competition about "engines" and "domestic appliances"--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:06, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

noone in one year? I am surprised. Should we enlarge this one?--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:28, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Maybe combine with Internal Combustion Engines? Maybe called "Prime Movers" to include any type of mechanical device that produces kinetic energy?Z28scrambler (talk) 21:58, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Electric motors are cool! (well, sometimes hot :) --- [Tycho] ^talk 14:10, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment I'd prefer the unified “engines” theme, which contains this, the “combustion engines” proposed above, and more. Yes, I'd like to see more washing machine interiors, which are electric engines, but that's hard, and we've done Home appliances inside and outside in 2016-12. – b_jonas 01:29, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

  I think there are already enough good pictures of gas engines. I think electric motors is better for a challenge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atomicdragon136 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

•  Support I'd still prefer engines in general, beacuse of ships. But even if the challenge topic is only for electric motors, I support this. We may want a warning notice so that people don't electrocute themselves when trying to get access to a motor. – b_jonas 10:17, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

used at Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - January - Engines and motors

Emotions

Body language and facial expressions illustrating a specific emotion, for example one from the list below:

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• Confidence
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• Contentment
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• Depression
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• Distrust
• Ecstasy
• Embarrassment
• Empathy
• Envy
• Euphoria
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• Frustration
• Gratitude
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• Interest
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•  Support --Ruthven (msg) 13:13, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:09, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - September - Emotions

Extreme or unusual weather phenomena

I am reusisng some of the ideas of the rejected proposals "rain" and "clouds", and "Weather phenomena", with some overlap with the general cycle of earth science themes.

Some examples are tornadoes, floods, cloud-to-cloud lightning, intense snow blizzards, funnel clouds, tsunamis, sandstorms... maybe extreme air pollution? personally I think we should give it a chance if it is better defined, and it is quite clear we are looking for pictures in a challenging situation. No risk people upload photos of simple drizzle.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:46, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 16:33, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support "classic theme" but... why not?--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Alexmar983, thanks for your comment, but you do realise that this is the ongoing challenge theme? ;->

You can find the link below (I just moved the section to the archive - hope I didn't confuse you too much...)

Best wishes, --Anna reg (talk) 19:13, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

 Used in June 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 19:13, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Eye Care and Visual impairment

See this Photo competition for exampels and hashtag "#EyeCareForAll".

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•  Support I cannot contribute anything myself to this topic, but there should be more often such specialized topics far away from mainstream. Quantity alone is not everything which counts.--KaiBorgeest (talk) 22:42, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment Now that we have three supports and it is getting possible to be selected in the next months, I inform you that World Sight Day is usually held on the second Thursday of October. Google it yourself. So we can schedule this one in October. Also, I was thinking to suggest a theme about handicap but we can enlarge this to blindness (adding such examples in the gallery). Let's wait for more comments.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:15, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support. MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:57, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

So can I enlarge it to "eye care and blindness"? Put some pictures of blind people too? BTW 99% this is going to be selected for the next month.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:34, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support Not an easy one, but I definitely think it is worth doing. Perhaps not combine it with "blindness", but with aids for the blind? --Kritzolina (talk) 17:17, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support A supposedly difficult challenge, but maybe we'll get a bounty of images from less industrialised countries where eyesight is more endangered than in, e.g. Europe. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 16:41, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Faces in Objects

Human or animal faces in everyday objects, rocks, buildings, etc. See:

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Fernsicht - long distant views

Distant views - views taken from great distances on Earth (no astronomical motifs). Not only superlatives of kilometers decide, but also the choice of motif, claim and the quality of the reproduction.

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•  Support -- Milseburg (talk) 23:01, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:46, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 17:15, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 10:19, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Islander61 (talk) 09:14, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Céléda (talk) 16:07, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - October - Long distance views

Firefighters and fire trucks

Firefighters, fire trucks and equipment Ibex73 (talk) 06:57, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support Would also like to add fire-fighters and vehicles in action (or would that constitute a new challenge catagory?) L-Bit (talk) 04:02, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 13:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Would retired or displayed fire trucks be acceptable?Z28scrambler (talk) 02:21, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:32, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support it is a global theme. Ibex73 I would also include fire boats (and similar vehicles), but feel free to change the examples gallery.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:23, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - August - Firefighters and firefighting equipment--Jarekt (talk) 12:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Fires, flames and sparks in science and technology

"Fire" was consdered too generic so it was archived as rejected. We had one about firefighters, too. So no more images of "fires". I try, as previously suggested, to reuse the idea in this more specific proposal. We always need more technical images, so that's a possibility.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:55, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:38, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

I am sorry because i think it is a useful and challenging (but not so rare) theme, but no other support showed up in months. Let's wait a little bit more.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:01, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Maybe add "sparks" for welding, steel cutting etc? --El Grafo (talk) 13:07, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Sure El Grafo, I do that soon.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:55, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Done.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:16, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

FYI wiki loves science is in November so this shouldn't be selected soon.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:09, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

•  Support That's a pretty cool topic --Atomicdragon136 (talk) 20:07, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support This one makes me think. That's usually a good thing. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 01:51, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

•  Support // Zquid (talk) 14:20, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - July - Fires

Fishing and Aquaculture

it was originally: Fishing (Angling) With hands, hooks, poles, rods, reels, nets, and line there are many varied and interesting ways for one of human-kinds oldest way to obtain food. Fishing can be done in all seasons worldwide. Include photos of people fishing for sport or necessity or fishing equipment, lures, rods, reels, etc..

 Support Ok, I tried to avoid in the gallery the use of images of "people" and "fish" and "boats", but after a survey I agree that we do need good technical pictures. Too many photos have low resolution, for example. And challenges about professions and food didn't get many pictures of this type so far.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:59, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:38, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
• "nets" (April 2017) is 30% about fishing nets, so if it increases its support, let's schedule this one far away in any case.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:47, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

What about "Aquaculture"? We could including in the title. If you agree. i could merge it with a new challenge but we already had "food production and processing" and it wasn't very successful (too much "cooking"-oriented, IMHO). So maybe I can rename this one "fishing and aquaculture"... I think they are still closely related. --Alexmar983 (talk) 14:13, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Ermell (talk) 05:28, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Support the merge idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Z28scrambler (talk • contribs) 22:58, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 10:19, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

I will change the title in the next weeks, ok?--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:03, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

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  Fishing a black-bass in a float-tube
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  Multicolored plastic fishing balls in Sweden
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  Fisherman in Gambia
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  Fly Casting Analyzer attached to Fly Rod
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  Electric pulse fishing in the Netherland.
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• Aquaculture in Vietnam
  Aquaculture in Vietnam
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Done! Here is the new gallery--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - July - Fishing

Food production and processing

proposed by Mateussf

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• support. Can we skip consumption? I think that food production and processing is an area lacking good pictures more than consumption. We should also try to schedule it before the end of this year EXPO.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:24, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
  • I agree with you. There are many pictures of consumption. Should I edit the suggestion? Mateus S. Figueiredo (talk) 00:37, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
    • I changed the title to "Food production and processing". I try to create a gallery.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:29, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

 Used in July 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 22:40, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Fountains & Wells

Fountains & Wells; proposed by F. Riedelio

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 Support specific theme, why not? Alexmar983 9. Juni 2015, 16:57 signature added by --Anna reg (talk) 08:21, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

 Support very interesting and several styles of Fountains & Wells and many possibilities to do a creative, artful photo Levin Holtkamp, 11:16, 25. Aug. 2015‎ (UTC)signature added by --Anna reg (talk) 06:43, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

 Comment not too similare to fountains which is on now.--Ermell (talk) 20:37, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Fruit, vegetable and cereals harvesting

Photos of the process of gathering a ripe crop, Proposed by Fauvirt (talk) 23:20, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 12:07, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support, but please call it just “crop harvesting” or “harvest”, to include plants that are neither fruits nor vegetables nor cereals, such as cotton or sunflower. – b_jonas 02:11, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support if named “crop harvesting” or “harvest” as proposed above. --El Grafo (talk) 14:18, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I like “harvest” better as well. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 22:44, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, just "harvest". – Shillings1005 (talk) 03:59, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
• I still think it's not supposed to be restricted to just fruit, vegetable and cereals, so I added a cotton harvest photo. That makes it more interesting too, since I live in the old world and I see cereal and sunflower fields, vineyards and fruit orchards all the time, but not cotton seeds. – b_jonas 00:52, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Indeed, "harvest". -- Franz van Duns (talk) 17:01, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support--ThomasLendt (talk) 17:05, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
•  SupportSeefan 2012 (talk) 20:34, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support--I like this theme since years very well.--Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 18:42, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support"harvest"--Ermell (talk) 08:58, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Fruit

– Proposed as "Bananas" by Shillings1005 (talk) 07:47, 28 February 2019 (UTC).

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•  Comment Why specifically bananas, and not other fruit? --Atomicdragon136 (talk) 00:52, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Faced with a lot of spare bananas one day, I was just wondering what other people do with their bananas. But “Fruit” is a better theme. So I changed my proposal. It overlaps with Harvest, but only slightly. – Shillings1005 (talk) 07:07, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Added some photos. – Shillings1005 (talk) 08:33, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Sure – b_jonas 22:50, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 13:13, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 9:00, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support--Ermell (talk) 08:12, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Good idea, excludes all images from "fast food franchises" and the like. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:34, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Seefan 2012 (talk) 07:56, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

--Jarekt (talk) 17:04, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Gardening

Previously: Urban Gardening--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:44, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

English: Urban horticulture

Deutsch: Urbaner Gartenbau

see also Category:Allotments, Category:Urban agriculture

proposed by Atamari simple theme - but there are no good pictures available

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•  Support interesting idea - all the more if it needs pictures! Anna reg (talk) 17:00, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support good and very up-to-date topic--Maimaid (talk) 18:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support would be very interesting ;) --Geolina ^{mente et malleo} ✎ 13:59, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Good idea dans l'air du temps. --Doalex (talk) 10:49, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't see the interest of it -- Jiel (talk) 21:51, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I would broaden it to just "Gardening". --Jarekt (talk) 11:45, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I agree, when images are specific (the very simple actions or tools) being "urban" means nothing. "Gardening" is still specific enough.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:53, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Approved with a changed generic name.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:44, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

 Done Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - October - Gardening--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:14, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Hair

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Hats

Hats

Hats, include Category:Hats

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proposed by --Atamari (talk) 13:00, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

 Support and hats on heads.--Ermell (talk) 20:39, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 21:18, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

 Support there a lot of very specific hat (traditional, professional) that we don't have yet.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:11, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Maire (talk) 23:12, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Would this include crowns, tiaras, helmets, headscarves? – b_jonas 13:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

 Support Nice idea, interesting -- Jiel (talk) 21:44, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - May - Hats --Jarekt (talk) 15:53, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Multi-exposure HDR capture

High-dynamic-range imaging

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•  Support as a proposer --Jarekt (talk) 15:41, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I am usually neutral about "technical" challenge but I like the pictures I see in the gallery, I want more of them.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:31, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Support LotharHakelberg (talk) 03:25, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose This topic will bring us some brilliant pictures, but also many HDR exaggerations, probably only a few of them will have encyclopedic value--KaiBorgeest (talk) 22:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
  • KaiBorgeest, that's not really true any more. HDR is absolutely standard practice for large interior photography and night photography: a significant portion of featured pictures are HDR. -- Colin (talk) 09:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support though may be hard to dell from a JPG whether the image used HDR techniques. -- Colin (talk) 09:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
  • Colin, sometimes I use it myself, e.g. to fill up a hard shadow. But in all these cases including the good examples above, HDR is not the content, but just a tool. If we want to encourage more photos of the kind above, it is - in my opinion - a good idea to propose a motif topic which may benefit from HDR. For example 'large interior photography'.--KaiBorgeest (talk) 20:17, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
    • KaiBorgeest, well it might be an idea, if this challenge runs, to offer suggestions like that, so people know what might be worth trying. I think part of the photo challenge is to encourage photographers to try new techniques, not just to spark creative ideas about what to photograph. If we just suggested the 'large interior photography' then it wouldn't obviously encourage anyone to try the technique. -- Colin (talk) 07:23, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support It may lean towards the artistic side but I still think it's a cool topic. Its another one that forces you to work on something you might not normally do. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 01:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Per user Sixflashphoto. This challenge motivates one to delve into a photographic technique which many would otherwise not consider trying. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:49, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support as a motivation to make good use of new Technology Seefan 2012 (talk) 21:11, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 14:14, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Neutral --Céléda (talk) 06:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - August - HDR

Home cooking videos

In the spirit of people staying indoors this month, a theme people can take pictures for while at home: home cooking (maybe even a video-specific challenge). Full recipes, but also demonstrating certain appliances, techniques, preparation, etc.

•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  14:12, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

* Opposevery good topic but this photo challenge not video challenge-user:Tbiw Tbiw (talk) 08:03, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

• • @Tbiw: we have had video before. see e.g. Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes/Archive#Video:_verbs. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  15:27, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support we do occasionally have "video" only challenges. --Jarekt (talk) 15:04, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support good idea, especially in the current circumstances. I suppose a lot of us do more home cooking than usually. --Kritzolina (talk) 11:11, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I was planning on shooting a cooking video for Commons in the coming days, so great idea! Gyrostat (talk) 15:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Cool! I'm doing a lot of cooking now. --Ruthven (msg) 08:31, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - April- Home cooking videos --Jarekt (talk) 12:05, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Holidays

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Horses

Horses (equestrian sport, riding school, wild horses, carriage/farm horses); proposed by F. Riedelio

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•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 21:19, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support ok but not too close to other animal-related challenge.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:40, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Kritzolina (talk) 07:49, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

This look a little bit neglected. Can some stranger leave a recent comment on this one? We can use it as a next "natural" theme if we increase its support a little.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:00, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

@Alexmar983 I added two new images. Is that enough for a comment? – b_jonas 14:08, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

b_jonas if you add a "favorable" too, people will now better when it's up to quickly evaluate. Besides specific circumstances most of the requests are considered for approval when they have more than 4 or 5 votes, in my experience.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:13, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

 Neutral ok, I'll explicitly vote abstain then. – b_jonas 14:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

 Comment Can we widen this please? It could be merged with 'Dogs' above into a 'Domesticated animals' challenge. There was a 'Working animals' challenge in 2016, but that's all for any domestic animals so far. – Shillings1005 (talk) 12:50, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Support I would also widen the scope, but just slightly and not quite as far as Shillings1005. My suggestion: Riding animals or mounts, which excludes pack animals, draft animals, and the like, but nevertheless will provide photographers all over the world a chance to find some suitable subject.
  But I would still agree to "horses only", if that is the choice of the community. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 22:36, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I like the pure topic "horses" because there are so many different horse breeds. I hope we will see a big broadband of this. Levin Holtkamp (talk) 17:27, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Tsaag Valren (talk) 10:35, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 20:06, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Seefan 2012 (talk) 07:14, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Household items (in use)

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 Support after trying to find more examples for this theme, I think it's safe to say that we could use much more of this kind … --El Grafo (talk) 16:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

 Used in December 2014-January 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Huts and Sheds

Huts (wooden huts, doghouses, alpine hut, mud hut,...); proposed by F. Riedelio

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•  Support But add "Sheds" to the category. I think the only difference is that you sleep in huts, but not sheds. Nevertheless, they have similar architectural and photographic qualities L-Bit (talk) 04:07, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Could barns be added or a different challenge? - Z28scrambler (talk) 12:51, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support after the introduction of a gallery with sheds yesterday, I've changed the title to Huts and Sheds too. I think that barns can become barns and stables (see above) and at that point they'll be both quite big challenge on their own. We can propose them at 3-6 months of distance and it should be ok.--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:40, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Let's wait a few more months after the recent "barns". --El Grafo (talk) 13:09, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:23, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment We waited enough, I thing it is eligible now for a future "countryside challenge.", maybe before the cold months start.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:01, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment I'd like a few more example pictures. Does File:Mazet in vineyards, Mèze cf02.jpg qualify? – b_jonas 17:02, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

 Used in October 2017 --Alexmar983 (talk) 14:19, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Insects

Insect macro photography.

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:03, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support The non-insect arthropod challenge was fine, so this will work too. – b_jonas 12:47, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support But to make it different from the past non-insect arthropods challenge, we should really limit it to actual insects. I've thus removed two sample images from the list, as they showed spiders. I guess the challenge description should have some information on what is an insect (as opposed to spiders, scorpions, centipedes etc.) – something along the lines of "must have 6 legs" … I think we should also require the subjects to be determined down to at least genus level. --El Grafo (talk) 10:16, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Yes, should include only insects, not other animals. No, I don't think we should require determining the subjects to the genus level. Insects are very varied, you can't expect submitters to be expert entomologists. Also, requiring identification would cause people to mostly submit photos of common insects, but photos of rarer insects are more variable. I added more pictures. It's easy: we have lots of good arthropod pictures, but need more, and will always need more. The topic is repeatable. – b_jonas 01:53, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Shillings1005 (talk) 13:58, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - May - Insects

Inside / Outside

View of the same object (be it man-made as in a building, vehicle etc. or natural, i.e. body organ, plant etc.) from the outside AND the inside. Example of building:

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--Saintfevrier (talk) 21:41, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

 Support This could definitely provide some very useful photos. BD2412 T 03:27, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

•  Support I prefer if this is run with a more limited scope such as just buildings. Otherwise we will get photos of nearly anything and that's not so interesting to review. -- Colin (talk) 13:48, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Interior clock

All sorts of interior clocks Proposed by Ibex73 (talk) 15:34, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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•  Neutral Eww. I personally hate these things, so I won't slap a support stamp here. But they're important for Commons scope, in the sense that we'd better photograph them all now before they all get thrown away in favor of cheaper modern clocks. – b_jonas 01:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Finderhannes (talk) 13:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Changing my vote to support, since I saw in the museum how hard it is to get good photographs of this. – b_jonas 10:44, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support if it's not restricted to those gold ones on mantelpieces. I added some more images. – Shillings1005 (talk) 09:56, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Clocks are both common household items and public artefacts, ranging fom miniature cuckoo clocks to Big-Ben-sized constructions. Wiki has many images, but these are in need of higher-quality, higher-resolution images, which such a contest would easily provide. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:59, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Seefan 2012 (talk) 10:15, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral not exited about that one --Jarekt (talk) 14:59, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - April- Interior Clocks --Jarekt (talk) 12:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Keyholes and key switches

See Category:Keyholes. We have some nice images, but not a lot of them. It could be interesting, because you can find some of them around but it is not easy to create a nice, creative, image. This could maybe inspire to look for unusual example. I added "key switches" in the title because they are a subcategory and we really need something better specifically in that direction. Keys are possible in the pictures but they should not be the main focus. (I think this was proposed by me, sorry if the signature is missing--Alexmar983 (talk) 19:56, 15 April 2019 (UTC))

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•  Support--Gozitano (talk) 08:28, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:24, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--Finderhannes (talk) 13:01, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I agree that Category:Keyholes does have some quality images of keyholes, however not so many. People can contribute more interesting or quality images. --Atomicdragon136 (talk) 16:29, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - June - Keys and Keyholes

Lakes, meres and ponds

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It is intended as "undocumented" lakes and ponds. Proposed by Alexmar983.

Starting from March 2017 we will begin the "undocumented" challenges and it is going to take a while to refine the tools. This is the new "frontier" of our geographic challenge. I am setting up a series of proposal as I said in the talk. So, why lakes? Well, in some countries there are thousands of them and they are still undocumented. Think about the northern part of Canada for example. Another example: svwiki created via bot all the entries to their lakes and they are A LOT. Of course since like hills and mountains statistics and language are never homogenous, I also include ponds. And you can also focus on oasis, I guess.--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:48, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

ok I am not sure about the "undocumented", so maybe it is going to be more "free".--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

We can reshape it as a "free" challenge. I hope we will not end up getting too much of images of important and big lakes.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:15, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

What about just "small lakes"? It is ambiguous but I think "mores, ponds and small lakes" get the idea. We can check the upload and voters can be more critical if they think the lake is important. So no lake Eire, Garda, Victoria... just "small" one, the one you rarely know the existence if the are outside of your region or county. Managing with the gray area is worth the effort of getting dozens of pictures of less known spots. What do you think? I put small lake in gallery.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:59, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Noone?--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:56, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support I'd say let's do this. There's some risk of getting boring pictures, but I think we'll get good ones too. – b_jonas 02:02, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 11:54, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I'd say this is a good one. It's one most everyone can do if they get out a bit. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 01:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Trougnouf (talk) 17:16, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ibex73 (talk) 14:07, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
• Adding some more example photos. – b_jonas 14:36, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
• Posted as Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - February - Lakes – b_jonas 21:53, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Leaf venation

Leaf venation

Veins of accurately identified plants. (see Category:Leaf veins for more examples)

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•  Support it is fascinating.--Alexmar983 (talk) 00:28, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
•  Support - high educational value with correct botanical identification. Jonathunder (talk) 00:21, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support wonderful topic!--Maimaid (talk) 18:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support would be very interesting ;) --Geolina ^{mente et malleo} ✎ 13:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support a good theme.--Doalex (talk) 10:39, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - July - Leaf veins --Jarekt (talk) 15:53, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Leaves

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Linear Perspective/One-point perspective/Vanishing Point

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• Not right now though, as it's a bit similar to "Diagonals". Just putting it here before I forget. --El Grafo (talk) 14:32, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Alexmar983 (talk) 13:39, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:46, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

anyone else?--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:49, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support--Gozitano (talk) 14:54, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--Jjm596 (talk) 19:44, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support-- dllu (t,c) 04:40, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Neptuul (talk) 10:23, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mk2010 (talk) 12:18, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- CatalpaSpirit (talk) 08:03, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 06:21, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

 Used in June 2017--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:06, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Local culture

Local culture

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•  Support--Covetrick (talk) 15:40, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- RTA 03:54, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support although would rather see it broken down a bit more finely. We have had foods and costumes, yet this as it stands over-arches both L-Bit (talk) 03:03, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice even if it is very large topic -- Jiel (talk) 21:44, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support fine with me.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:08, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - September - Local culture--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:19, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Long exposures

Long exposures ; proposed by RTA

I would like to see star trails, not people at the street... so: -- RTA 18:49, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

This is our theme for Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - April - Long exposure photography – b_jonas 13:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Long exposure photography

Star trails, Car long exposure, People disappearing by long exposure, etc.

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This proposal was here already in October 2015. I am neutral with "technical" challenges but I suggest that whoever agrees should show up his/her support. Otherwise this can be put in the archive.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:12, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

anyone? Say something!--Alexmar983 (talk) 22:26, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

We had "Long exposure photography" in April 2016, BTW...--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:26, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 06:38, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Why not do it again this time? I am a fan of long exposure photography. --★ Poké⁹⁵ 05:10, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

"again" is not an issue (see the fossils challange), although a small variation of the theme could be a nice idea, if you can suggest some. Generally speaking, of course. Again I have no specific idea in these cases, my main goal is "missing stuff"--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:17, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 03:43, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose --We should not repeat the same topic in such short intervals. --KaiBorgeest (talk) 21:57, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

I suspect that this selection process usually consider one year a fair interval for an almost identical theme. BTW with three "supports" this can still take a while usually to be selected. So I don't think there is a "practical" issue here.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:33, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Any new comments on this one? it's been a while.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:00, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

 Request Maybe make it more challenging? For example, long exposure beyond 30 seconds or long exposure photos of water. --- [Tycho] ^talk 10:33, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support We don't have huge numbers of good-quality long-exposure images. I don't think we need to make this one harder; the exposure length should be based on the needs of the subject, and not be arbitrarily restricted. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:29, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

•  Support I think this is worth a go. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 22:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Same motivation as the theme "High-Dynamic-Range Imaging". This challenge similarly motivates one to delve into a photographic technique which many would otherwise not consider trying. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 16:47, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:49, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 22:32, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment (already supported) Plenty of time has elapsed since the last time this was selected. MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:02, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - November - Long Exposures --Jarekt (talk) 13:49, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Mailboxes

Mailboxes, include Category:Letter boxes, Category:Post boxes and others

proposed by atamari

--Atamari (talk) 10:32, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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•  Support specific, but interesting. As a child, I loved to see the difference in mailboxes around the world.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:24, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support But I would also extend it to post offices, and postal service in general. --Jarekt (talk) 12:40, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support. Keep it specific to mailboxes only (post offices and postal services can be a separate challenge). --P 1 9 9  ✉ 18:06, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Maimaid (talk) 18:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support interesting ;) --Geolina ^{mente et malleo} ✎ 13:53, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Mammals in their native habitat

Wild Mammals, or mammals excluding people, pets and farm animals. Wild and captive setting, like zoos, are allowed. --Jarekt (talk) 13:10, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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• Strong  Support for wild mammals in their native habitat; but equally strong  Oppose for captive / zoo pics. Commons already has far too many depressing pics of the latter, but nowhere near enough of the former. Yes it makes it more difficult, but this makes it a better challenge ;-) - MPF (talk) 13:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

I am fine with that restriction. --Jarekt (talk) 13:27, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

• I also  Support mammals "in their native habitat". --Alexmar983 (talk) 06:15, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

I change the title, noone opposed.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:22, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support--Ibex73 (talk) 05:56, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - May - Mammals.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:24, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Manufacturing

Manufacturing, factories, workshops, production lines, etc. --Jarekt (talk) 12:22, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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•  Support: very educational and many industries can be better represented. --P 1 9 9  ✉ 17:43, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support: we always need more of these images. For example in the "food production and processing" almost none of the pictures was related to a factory.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:15, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support: as above 03:01, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:45, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - June - Manufacturing --Jarekt (talk) 15:55, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Measurements and unit of measures

Years ago I saw a scale graded with the very rare "daL" (something I only heard at school and never saw before and probably will never see again) and I did not have a camera. I still regret it. But more importantly, few months ago a user asked me if I could find images of the old sample of units of weight, volume and length used in Italian towns before the French revolution. They are the plates and vase that were installed close to town halls and old public scales. Those two anecdotes made me think that some effort in that direction could be useful.

The focus in this proposal is a little bit larger and can be scientific, commercial or historical. Most of our images of scientific measuring instrument are also low-resolution. Of course we can refine to a more specific target if you think it is better. --Alexmar983 (talk) 16:36, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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thank you unknown guy... the current challenge about number is going also in this direction, so if this one is scheduled, it can't be soon.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:01, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 15:52, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:05, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --- [Tycho] ^talk 15:28, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:46, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Levin Holtkamp (talk) 19:08, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Atomicdragon136 (talk) 00:47, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Cquoi (talk) 08:02, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - November - Measurements

Mirroring (Reflections)

proposed by Llann Wé²

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•  Support Definitely could yield some useful images. BD2412 T 15:34, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Whenever I see a cool reflection I try to take picture of it. It is interesting and fun, but resulting images rarely are useful for illustrating anything and I do not upload them because they would likely be out of scope or borderline. --Jarekt (talk) 17:08, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Mirrors

We had "reflectiohttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themesns" last year. This is overlapping a little bit but you can focus on the mirror or on what is reflected inside. So even if it falls in that category, it is not a theme totally focused on "objects". We have enough images of different mirrors so I hope it is encouraging original composition or the depiction of particular mirrors. Also, most of the images are not great they can be better, IMHO.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:43, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support - very good. BD2412 T 10:38, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, this would allow interesting compositions, so it is a worthy photo challenge. – b_jonas 09:14, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 10:03, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:07, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Seefan 2012 (talk) 07:09, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:50, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
• Done Commons:Photo_challenge/2019_-_December_-_Mirrors – b_jonas 10:09, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Mobility aids for the handicapped

We are definitely missing a lot of content on disability and things that help mitigate disability, here as well as on the Wikipedias. There is a lot to learn and discover about wheelchairs, I think! --Kritzolina (talk) 19:27, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

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•  Support I like it. Levin Holtkamp (talk) 13:25, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Full support for a very noble idea! I humbly suggest either to expand the range of this theme slightly as "Mobility aids for the handicapped" or to retain this extended proposal for some future date. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 14:04, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

I definitely support the extension of the theme. --Kritzolina (talk) 18:53, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Support! the expanded range to mobility aids sounds like a good idea Mx Lucy (talk) 09:56, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support for "Mobility aids for the handicapped" --Jarekt (talk) 14:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 09:34, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:31, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Céléda (talk) 07:54, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Islander61 (talk) 15:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

see Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - September - Mobility aids for the handicapped --Jarekt (talk) 19:52, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Mother Nature strikes back

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 Support Considero que este pudiera ser un excelente tema, y con grandes posibilidades de expresión artística por sus propias características. Ojalá alguien traduzca estas letras mías, así como que alguien más se sume a votar a favor del mismo. --Ivan2010 (talk) 17:40, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

•  Support Intersting concept L-Bit (talk) 02:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support - I think this can be something as basic as weeds growing through a sidewalk. BD2412 T 16:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Slick (talk) 04:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

 Used in May 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 22:54, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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•  Support fine, but far away from engine-related or sport-related challenge, so it will take a while to do this one.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:37, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support LotharHakelberg (talk) 03:27, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support But wait several months after the overlapping Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - April - Aircraft. – b_jonas 09:18, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 08:55, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Redalert2fan (talk) 22:43, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I like this idea
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 09:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
• Done: Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - February - Motorsports – b_jonas 10:34, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Multilingualism

See the Multilingual media, proposed by Alexmar983.

It is an universal topic. If you are in a tourist area, in a ethnic neighborhood, at an airport or a station, in multilingual countries or in areas where minority language are protected, travelling close to a border, attending an international event, looking at the goods at the supermarket, eating at a ethnic restaurant... there are a lot of occasions. Some examples are: street signs, warnings, informative plaques, façades of buildings, stamps and banknotes (from countries with no copyright restriction)... --Alexmar983 (talk) 08:01, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support - useful to illustrate regions where people are expected to require (or benefit from) multilingual presentations. BD2412 T 14:57, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:54, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
• Let's make it a real challenge: signs and objects with at least 3 languages. In that case,  Support --P 1 9 9  ✉ 17:52, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

the real challenge IMHO would be if you find a rare language, something spoken by less than 15 millions people. But still, many of this images in the category are low quality or not very creative, we should be happy to get good one at least for this time.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:25, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

I prefer the original version. In the US, it is a "real challenge" to find anything in 2 languages, 3 would be close to impossible. --Jarekt (talk) 15:52, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

I don't care but if the challenge is restricted to "minor languages" you still have some possibility in Indian reservations, and some ethnic neighborhoods. Otherwise, I don't think "2 languages", including very common ones, is so hard in the USA, I've been there and there were a lot. Spanish to start with, than Japanese in Hawaii, Pennsylvania Dutch in Hamish county, those communities of Finnish-American in Upper Michigan, Slovenians in Cleveland, 1-2% of Jews, cajun in Lousiana, bilingual counties in Vermont... and I am not opening any wikipedia page. --Alexmar983 (talk) 03:22, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Assianir (talk) 08:50, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Neptuul (talk) 11:43, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Mizardellorsa (talk) 09:10, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Giacomo Lanza (talk) 09:46, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

 Used in February 2017

Musical instruments

It was originally: Musicians and/or Musical instruments

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•  Comment - Would be more in favor of just musical instruments, not Musicians - Z28scrambler (talk) 02:23, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I also would prefer to split it into instruments and have musicians separatly. Maybe as part of Performers. --Jarekt (talk) 19:59, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support as Musical instruments. Of course musicians can be depicted, but they shouldn't be the core of the attention, IMHO.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:35, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

I change the title, noone opposed.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:13, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Together with some other German Wikipedians, I have created a project called Wiki Loves Music to improve the quality of musical instrument images on Wikipedia. Alexmar983, Christian Ferrer, Z28scrambler, Jarekt, can I invite you to check out the project page (maybe using Google translate)? Recently, Yamaha Music started donated photographs of their products, which can be found at Category:Wiki Loves Music. Thanks, --Gnom (talk) 11:36, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

It was requested yesterday to have this challenge in July because of a specific event in Hamburg, I think it is a good idea. Any comment?--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:47, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. --Jarekt (talk) 23:33, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Ermell (talk) 05:20, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

 Done Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - July - Musical instruments.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:37, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Nature's blues

Version of old Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - January - Blue .--Jarekt (talk) 12:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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•  Support – Shillings1005 (talk) 01:20, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 14:08, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -Céléda (talk) 08:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Calistemon (talk) 08:21, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -ThomasLendt (talk) 19:56, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:33, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - September - Nature's blues --Jarekt (talk) 02:14, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Nature's yellows

Naturally occurring yellow – proposed by Shillings1005 (talk) 00:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

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•  Support A wonderful subject. Fits perfectly into previous colour series. I remember calls for pink and for blue images. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:34, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I like it, a great idea to show more colours in nature -- Seefan 2012 (talk) 10:03, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
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•  Support -- Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:51, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I like it, a great idea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pabliotecario (talk • contribs) 18:31, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
•  SupportThomasLendt (talk) 18:09, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I like color themes and nature themes. Maybe we should exclude bananas :) --Jarekt (talk) 15:01, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support-tbiw(talk "." 14:36 26 January 2020 Tbiw (talk) 13:36, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:39, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 17:15, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- I think its a great color challenge Dishita Bhowmik (talk) 12:15, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - March - Nature's yellows --Jarekt (talk) 03:55, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Nets

Nets (fishing net, spider web, string bag, tennis net, goal net,...); proposed by F. Riedelio

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 Comment I think this theme should include things that are not called "nets", such as hammocks. Otherwise it will be impossible to translate. Mateus S. Figueiredo (talk) 01:07, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

•  Support Like it a lot L-Bit (talk) 03:18, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Maire (talk) 23:19, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support but personally would not insert pictures of "Spider webs", only human products.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:37, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

after a competition focused on spiders (August 2016), I strongly suggest to focus on artificial nets. In some languages "webs" are also "nets", in other ones maybe they aren't. We can call it just "nets" but the focus on "human products" should be clear in the description.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:16, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

I think spiders in a net would be still interesting, so no need to exclude. --Jarekt (talk) 15:53, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support precise topic, but with wide range of possibilities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Levin Holtkamp (talk • contribs) 13:21, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per Levin --El Grafo (talk) 13:43, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - April - Nets

Numbers

Numbers (scores, figures of numbers, numbers on the price tags, time (electronic), numbers on information boards (bus, train, other transport), ...). Proposed by --Brateevsky {talk} 07:35, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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•  Support It would be interseting to see how people vote, i.e. for the artistic quality or the message conveyed L-Bit (talk) 02:56, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Numbers are universal, it is a nice theme to be developped.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 21:20, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Photographs of just numbers numbers seem to be uninteresting. Photographs with a number somewhere in them seem to be all over the place. Not exited about that one. --Jarekt (talk) 14:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

I think that we could accept once in a while a "diffuse" theme. I prefer clear theme, but this way we can get pictures that usually people don't take. semel in anno...--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:45, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I will change to  Neutral --Jarekt (talk) 12:29, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Weak support Might be too broad and undefined --York12321 (talk) 11:44, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Vague themes like this fore you to think outside the box instead. Leave it to the photographer to make something meaningful out of this. --El Grafo (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 Used in March 2017--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:36, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

On the move

On the move

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•  Support we can get something unexpected and useful, so why not?--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Support We need more quality photos of sports on Commons, and they're sometimes hard to obtain because many professional sports events require special permission for taking photos. This challenge is a good way to encourage such sports photos. – b_jonas 14:13, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment to be scheduled far away from "in action, camera panning" (August), so probably next year, especially if we go no new vote by than.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:35, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:26, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Trougnouf (talk) 19:17, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - June - On the move

Outlier

English: The new challenge for January features Outliers in terms of all but one are equal, one steps out of line, or swim against the current.

Deutsch: Im neuen Jänner Wettbewerb geht es um Außenseiter im Sinne von alle bis auf einen sind gleich, einer tanzt aus der Reihe oder gegen den Strom schwimmen.

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•  Comment If this is supposed to be for photos where the technique of en:Panning (camera) was used, it might be wise to make that the title of the challenge: Suggest to name it Camera panning or something similar. --El Grafo (talk) 10:06, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
  • That's OK for me. I cleared the description.  El Grafo. --Llann .\m/ ^{(Lie 2 me ...)} 17:37, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support I'm not a lot into technical challenge but I see the value.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support. This is a real challenge. --P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:28, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support – thought I had already supported … --El Grafo (talk) 13:11, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 06:18, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 17:31, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

this could be a nice technical challenge soon. I fell we should do more "ubiquitous" topic, the ones you can't figure out the exact content-related output.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:56, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

 Used in August 2017 --Alexmar983 (talk) 09:34, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Panoramas

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Pastry and cake

All sorts of pastries and cakes Proposed by Ibex73 (talk) 15:30, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support Oh! This is a very good one. I know from earlier research that we don't have enough good photos of them. – b_jonas 02:06, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
•  SupportOppidumNissenae (talk) 18:58, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Trougnouf (talk) 19:17, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yep. -- Sixflashphoto (talk) 10:21, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
• Adding a few more sample images. Now I'm hungry. – b_jonas 17:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - December - Cakes

Personal Protective Equipment

Personal Protective Equipment, include Category:Personal Protective Equipment or Category:Safety equipment

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proposed by --Atamari (talk) 13:09, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

 Support – b_jonas 15:30, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

•  Support. --P 1 9 9  ✉ 18:07, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

 Used in August 2015 --Anna reg (talk) 19:29, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic

Pandemic response in your community, social distancing, views of the city from your window, local food stores, information signs related to pandemic, etc. --Jarekt (talk) 13:18, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

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•  Support as proposer --Jarekt (talk) 15:59, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Anytime-V (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --pandakekok9 07:37, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support with that small bit of hesitation that we should not encourage people to go out and take pictures.. --Kritzolina (talk) 18:35, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
  •  Agree that should not be an excuse to go outside if you are not supposed to. --Jarekt (talk) 23:03, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose – Unless we specifically limit it to scenes taken from inside looking out, this topic should be left to the journalists. The last thing disaster responders need is a bunch of amateurs getting in the way. Stay home and be safe(r), everyone. – Shillings1005 (talk) 05:40, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose not proper to be a challenge and so bad it should be removed. - user:Tbiw Tbiw (talk) 08:09, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Geek3 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose. While there are quarantines around the world, it is better to have indoor or archive challenges.--Роман Рябенко (talk) 17:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support It is important to document this period of history. -Céléda (talk) 08:40, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose already overrepresented. --Horchatamivida (talk) 14:31, 1 Mai 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - May - COVID-19 pandemic

Pink

Pink, as "pink october". In reference to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, wich seems to be international (in France it's "octobre rose"). - Scailyna (talk) (talk) 14:11, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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•  Support - interesting use of a theme color. BD2412 T 04:07, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I don't like this type of challenges but we do have less pink images than with other colors. I guess once a while is no harm.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:29, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose: too broad. If you want to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month, why not have a "Breast Cancer Awareness" challenge? --P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:31, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 19:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah! pink is back! (that was recovered from archive, FYI)--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:34, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

•  Support as long as the subject does not have to be related to "pink october". I like color themes! --El Grafo (talk) 10:21, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Fauvirt (talk) 09:22, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
• There were too few example images. I added more. Now there's too many. Please reduce them in any way you want. Also, I should add a cherry blossom photo in there. – b_jonas 22:38, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
• Jarekt posted this challenge: Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - October - Pink – b_jonas 10:40, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Prison buildings

Prison buildings ; proposed by Maimaid

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Maimaid (talk • contribs) 14:32, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

•  Support I would like it Levin Holtkamp (talk) 11:42, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great idea! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.200.70.53 (talk • contribs) 12:19, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support sure, there are a lot of pictures of jails and prisons we don't have. But you only showed pictures taken from outside. Inside is important as well, we should suggest this option explicitly, in my opinion.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:18, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose Good idea, but in some parts of the United States, taking photos of in use prisons is frowned upon and possibly illegal.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Z28scrambler (talk • contribs) 22:37‎, (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:38, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support--Finderhannes (talk) 13:03, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

I try to revive this suggestion, after one year. What if we try a broader theme such as "justice"? We have the one about crimes and misdemeanors, we could merge them or simply schedule two challenges far away. This one could become "prisons, jails and courthouses"... any other ideas? Or we can leave this theme, but it is time someone else shows up for support.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:30, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

•  Support for the prisons, jails and courthouses --Kritzolina (talk) 07:46, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - April - Prisons --Jarekt (talk) 03:23, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Pottery

This are art work of clay which show the beauty of it rather than metals.Did you know that some other materials can be made from clay such as pot,cups and other materials.Too see some fantastic creative look below the creative and clay works. Tbiw (talk) 17:41, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

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•  Support – Nice idea for a theme. But I suggest we call it Pottery… "the craft of making objects from clay". I added a few more images. – Shillings1005 (talk) 10:13, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 17:17, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

• One concern is the copyright aspect, as a lot of pottery created by others might be copyrighted, and I hate seeing images contributed to the photo challenge by new contributors deleted. If we do this theme we should have specific guidance related to copyright issues. Perhaps have gallery of images without copyright issues. --Jarekt (talk) 04:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

•  Support - Albarubescens 17:15, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Kritzolina (talk) 07:09, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tbiw (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Céléda (talk) 11:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 05:49, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Public parks

While many parks are already well documented on commons, a lot of smaller towns and especially places outside of Europe and Northern America have parks that still could use more good pictures. Parks are everywhere, but they come in many different varieties and they often have a lot of different things that can be interesting to photograph - flowerbeds, landscaped nature, statues, fountains, benches, walkways... --Kritzolina (talk) 07:51, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

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•  Support –- Shillings1005 (talk) 12:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Seefan 2012 (talk) 07:16, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, I agree, but we should exclude national parks and the like. I suggest limiting the scope to "public parks sculpted by man", or similar. All above gallery images, even the soccer field, fit nicely into that scheme. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 20:32, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:53, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jarekt (talk) 15:02, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support sure, good idea. –- b_jonas 18:57, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Albarubescens 19:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment Added 2 pictures. – b_jonas 13:29, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
• Done Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - February - Public parks – b_jonas 10:36, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Railway and Railway infrastructure

Railways

Railway (steam engines, trains, mountain railway, railway systems); proposed by F. Riedelio

can someone explain to me why we have both "railway" and "railway infrastructures"? That seems quite confusing.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:47, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

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I added some example photos from previous Picture of the Year competitions. This isn't an ideal selection, so you may want to add a few more photos to broaden this. – b_jonas 15:55, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

 Support Ibex73 (talk) 19:18, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

 Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

 Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:39, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Railway infrastructure

Railway infrastracture (train stations, railway bridges, signal towers); proposed by F. Riedelio

•  Support High time we got something related to transport up and running. -_Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:01, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Support, we had wheels a while ago in which there were a few locomotive wheels, but this is quite different L-Bit (talk) 03:26, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
•  CommentI think that "Railway infrastructure" and "Railways" are too similar and could be merged. We can always propose another theme about transportation in the future and get more pictures. We have enough, there's no need to push in that direction with two almost overlapping contests, IMHO.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:31, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Reorganization

As I said, I reorganized the proposal merging them. I suggest we split them in a little bit more defined way. For example "railway bridge" is part of both, it is an aspect of an infrastructure but it can be a good explicative picture of a railway line itself. Also, "train stations" should be "undocumented train stations" (as stated also with town halls etc) but to do that we need, as I said before, precise tools. Things like that.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:37, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Here are some possible subsets to combine:

• Locomotives
• Train wagons (exteriors and interiors)
• Freight trains
• Railways technology (hot bearing detector, automatic block signaling...)
• Undocumented train stations
• Railways crossings
• Panoramic pictures of railways and trains

Part of the images about railways where provided by the challanges "unusual vehicles" and "wheels" so the competion about the trains can probably merge "locomotives" and "wagons" and we also have quite a lot of image of trains in any case.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:47, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

As with "earth science", we can think of a series of specific challenges and dilute them, on every semester. It takes longer but avoid ducplicates and increase the focus on what we are actually missing. We could also inform wikipedia projects--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:07, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Rainwater drainage

Anything that directs the flow of precipitation: channels, canals, gutters, drains, ditches, etc. -- Shillings1005 (talk) 23:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

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•  Support -- Albarubescens 9:00, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support What a wonderful down-to-earth subject! Any kind of drainage system will do, the spectrum ranges from gutters and channels managing week-long rain in the highlands to techniques for mastering once-a-decade rainfalls in the desert. Let the images from all over the world roll in. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:14, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support very interesting, includes custom cultures. this topic offers historics and modern views. I like it Levin Holtkamp (talk) 18:02, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support very up to date, as rain and flooding incraise Seefan 2012 (talk) 09:36, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support —- Granger (talk  · contribs) 09:06, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Linie29 (talk) 15:17, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tbiw (talk) 16:37, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ermell (talk) 20:39, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Céléda (talk) 11:14, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Calistemon (talk) 08:32, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:36, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - June - Rainwater drainage

Red and White

• Alternative that would fit the "western" holiday season with plenty of room for non-christmasy subjects. --El Grafo (talk) 09:48, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Religious practices

people engaged in religious practices. --Jarekt (talk) 15:25, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Renewable energy

Use of renewable energy (wind turbine, solar, hydropower, ...).proposed by Ibex73--Ibex73 (talk) 05:41, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support it is balanced theme. Quite ubiquitous. Although many of the files we have are not so bad, so it's not an urgent one.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:22, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support, a timely theme. BD2412 T 19:48, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 15:46, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Looks useful. --- [Tycho] ^talk 10:37, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Oh, you mean dams with generators on rivers, or artificial lakes with pumps to temporarily store energy? sure, those can look interesting. – b_jonas 16:41, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

  I'll add some more example pictures though, of dams and windmills and solar panels. – b_jonas 18:12, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Reptiles and amphibians

Reptiles and amphibians, include Category:Amphibia and Category:Reptilia, and all their subcategories.

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Rocks and Minerals

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Proposed by --Jarekt (talk) 13:06, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Support the concept but will require a good scheduling with the "earth science" competition (are we splitting it or not?)--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:32, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

It does overlap with "earth science". It is more narrow and favors, indoor studio shoots. --Jarekt (talk) 16:04, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Jarekt I also made a proposal for the "earth science" competition, above.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:58, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - November - Rocks and Minerals--Jarekt (talk) 15:56, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Rock faces

Rock faces; proposed by F. Riedelio

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 Comment These photos do not show what I meant by rock faces. I meant rocks that look like human faces. --F. Riedelio (talk) 13:31, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Sorry I misunderstood. I created Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Faces_in_Objects based on you suggestion. --Jarekt (talk) 20:53, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

 Support --Jarekt (talk) 13:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

 Support --Geolina ^{mente et malleo} ✎ 13:54, 4 January 2016 (UTC)  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - June - Rock formations--Jarekt (talk) 15:56, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Rotational symmetry

Rotational symmetry is found in natural phenomena, architecture, and many other things. Proposed by dllu (t,c) 01:59, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 14:22, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yeah, I see this could lead to interesting submissions. – b_jonas 10:33, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I like this one Shillings1005 (talk) 06:43, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  15:42, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
• Posted as Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - February - Rotational symmetry – b_jonas 21:53, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Rural decay

Manmade structures in rural settings that are falling apart, decaying, rotting, have flaking paint, etc; generally caused by people leaving rural areas for urban and suburban areas and/or population decline but could also be simple neglect. I'm thinking this should be limited to places like farms, meadows, wooded areas, and small villages but not things like abandoned ancient stone ruins. --- Proposed by PumpkinSky talk 14:40, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

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We can do this as well. In these last months, we are really pushing a lot of decaying or rotten "stuff". We have to start to pick one of the other "similar" ideas soon, or it will take ages to schedule them all, given a decent time to avoid overlap.--Alexmar983 (talk) 15:03, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

The proposed theme above "Destroyed and disappeared places and buildings" is in line with what I referred to as "abandoned and ancient ruins". That's the only similar pending theme I find. For themes already used, I found "100 years later" and "Mother Nature strikes back", both from back in late 2015. PumpkinSky talk 15:21, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

I was referring to "corroded objects" too. And I also proposed broken stuff, which created no reaction. There is also "archeological sites", so you see we are really pushing in that direction from different perspectives. We can approve them all, we simply should dilute them a little bit.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:36, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 10:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --OKJaguar (talk) I would support this theme since abandoned structures and entire "ghost towns" are sadly not uncommon around where I live. 29 December 2018 (UTC)

added a pic. OKJaguar (talk) 22

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•  Support --ThomasLendt (talk) 16:08, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support But don't make it only about buildings. I'd like to see abandonned cars and such like too. – b_jonas 22:54, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
  •  Neutral I'll have to think more about this. I supported this theme for the wrecked vehicles, but the wreckage theme did that perfectly. – b_jonas 18:43, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support- Albarubescens 9:00, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I would preferably stick to the challenge title "Rural decay" to keep out industrial decay, city decay, and the like. Of course, a scrapped car in a rural setting would would be a valid entry. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:22, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Seefan 2012 (talk) 21:39, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support —Granger (talk  · contribs) 09:05, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

--Jarekt (talk) 17:10, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Sailboats

Sailboats and Tall ships

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 Support --Jarekt (talk) 03:28, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 17:05, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support it sounds like a "standard" theme, but why not? i am sure photographers like it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:18, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--KaiBorgeest (talk) 21:54, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jacek79 (talk) 21:07, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

 Used in July 2017--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:56, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Schools (primary, secondary school and higher education)

The photo theme may be school buildings and interiors, special uniforms etc., maybe notability teachers and co. too. Proposed by Fauvirt.

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•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 18:30, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support, by the way, when Jarekt voted on 28 September, Taiwan was on Teacher's Day( Confucius was born on the day)😂.--S099001 (talk) 13:51, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support but I am not sure about the "higher education"... I though in my mind about this theme as schools for children and teenagers. You decide.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:01, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ibex73 (talk) 15:40, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
• 'Schools' means different things in different countries. And it suggests an emphasis on buildings, though that is presumably not intended as many of the examples show teachers and students. Could we not just call this 'Education' ? MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:34, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support (including higher education) --Trougnouf (talk) 19:19, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
• Jarekt posed this challenge: Commons:Photo_challenge/2018_-_September_-_Schools – b_jonas 10:37, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Sensor

Sensors are devices that gather information about the physical world. Examples include thermometers, light sensors, cameras, encoders, flow meters, microphones, pressure sensors, strain gauges, and so on. Sensors may be big or small, and are found abundantly in all households in all sorts of devices. Yet, despite their ubiquity, there are relatively few good photos of them on Commons. dllu (t,c) 01:44, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

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•  Support as proposer dllu (t,c) 01:44, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support, sounds good. BD2412 T 13:11, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 13:35, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:47, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Sure, let's see if anyone has the galls to disassemble an expensive time of flight camera! – b_jonas 18:45, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support —Granger (talk  · contribs) 09:05, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:34, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tbiw (talk) 08:14, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Geek3 (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support—Shillings1005 (talk) 01:15, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support-Céléda (talk) 11:41, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support-- Calistemon (talk) 08:33, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - May - Sensors

Shadows

How about shadows? You can see them day and night around the world, and photographers love them. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:54, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

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•  Support –- Great idea. Shillings1005 (talk) 03:02, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support definitely interesting, yes! -- Kritzolina (talk) 07:55, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Musicaline (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- F. Riedelio (talk) 06:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 17:15, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Islander61 (talk) 09:12, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tbiw (talk) 16:40, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 20:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment I fear, that's a very wide theme. But how about: Shadow of the photographer? Doesn't our own shadow often disturb the realisation of the picture, we have in mind? So we could find out about all our (funny) disasters with this annoying part of ourself, which is always banned from serious publishing. --PtrQs (talk) 18:03, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -Céléda (talk) 16:54, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose topic not really interesting Tbiw (talk) 08:34, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2020 - July - Shadows.

Smoke

possibly including Smog, Fog, Steam, and Clouds

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•  Comment I'd prefer to restrict this too actual smoke (produced during combustion, contains solid particles) as opposed to water vapor (Fog, Steam, and Clouds). --El Grafo (talk) 15:30, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

 Used in November 2014 --Anna reg (talk) 22:03, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Spring

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•  Support Fauvirt (talk) 16:16, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Used for Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - March - Spring. --Jarekt (talk) 11:48, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Stationery

See the Stationery category, proposed by Alexmar983.

They are everywhere but we don't have a lot of nice pictures of these items. Japan is fine, but the rest of the world is not. As an "object-oriented" challenge it could be interesting.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:48, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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Noone? So hard with objects!--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:53, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support not especially thrilling at first sight, but let's see what people make of it. A solid, straight-forward theme that would make sense to run along something more fancy that might not be for everyone. --El Grafo (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:30, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support. There is a need for some much higher-quality pictures in this area. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:08, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 16:42, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I've been meaning to take a good photo of my rOtring pencil... dllu (t,c) 08:17, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support ThomasLendt (talk) 09:28, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Though now we have to wait a bit so it doesn't follow Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - September - Schools too closely – b_jonas 16:31, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
•  Support All the world over everyone has some kind of stationary spread over his/her desk, provided one has a desk. But even a pencil stump arranged beside a scrap of paper on a baked mud floor would do. An seemingly easy topic, and exactly that fact makes this a rather difficult challenge. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:53, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral I also think that this is not especially thrilling challenge. --Jarekt (talk) 14:35, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support —Granger (talk  · contribs) 09:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

--Jarekt (talk) 17:13, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Street Performers

originally: Performers: actors, musicians, magicians, acrobats, etc. --Jarekt (talk) 12:24, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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ok noone has said anything so far. i am going to change the title in few weeks. Please comment...--Alexmar983 (talk) 16:54, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

I changed it.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support yeah, I can see how this can lead to nice images – b_jonas 16:38, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support good idea — Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:29, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Fauvirt (talk) 12:31, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Trougnouf (talk) 19:19, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - August - Street Performers

Street photography

See also: en:Street photography, Street photography; proposed by KKnoefler247

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 Support I like the idea. Kadarkhan0000 (talk) 09:58, 27. Mär. 2015 signature added by Anna reg (talk) 19:50, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

 Support Samsara (talk) 11:53, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

 Comment Is this challenge "abandoned"? It is from last year and we kinda shifted to more focused themes in the last months, maybe someone should leave another positive comment so we know if it is still ok and in this case we should select it asap, considering it is one of the oldest ones. I don't focus on this type of themes, so I am neutral.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:20, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

anyone?--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:48, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support but we will need examples--Jarekt (talk) 16:00, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

not my cup of tea here, sorry!--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:11, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

I gave it a try … --El Grafo (talk) 17:25, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support, but probably needs a reminder to keep in mind local laws regarding personality rights. --El Grafo (talk) 09:17, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
• Now that I see the example I also  Support. I like themes with various output, because you always get that specific picture that you really needed, but it's often not uploaded during a challenge with a specific theme.

about the personality rights "warning", maybe we could create some template with link to commons page. Specifically for themes that focus a lot on people (it would be the same for "traditional professions" for example). I hope it does not make things more complicated. In order to avoid 1 picture that we can delete later, we risk to loose much more because people become too cautious. Who knows.-Alexmar983 (talk) 08:28, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

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Sundials

Sonnenuhren; cadrans solaires; proposed by Maimaid

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 Support great idea ;) --Geolina ^{mente et malleo} ✎ 13:57, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

 Support Ibex73 (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

 Support L-Bit (talk) 03:25, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

 Support fine with me. Universal theme, useful for education.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:44, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Almost one year with no new comment? That's unusual. Well, as soon as a new one support we schould schedule this one. maybe we are on time before the sunny days end.--Alexmar983 (talk) 14:00, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

 Support Very good idea.(Z28scrambler (talk) 22:18, 2 July 2017 (UTC))

Nice, we could pick this one before the autumn begins.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:02, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - September - Sundials.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:27, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Telephones

All telephone related objects and telephone types: landline phones, payphones, mobile phones and smartphones, cordless phones, people talking on phones, etc.

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•  Support Interesting subject with potential to lots of valuable contributions. Tomer T (talk) 20:33, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 21:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I am worried about "smartphones", which are every common. What about focusing on "analog" telephones (and related infrastructure)? Or something like "pre 2000 telephones", I hope you get the idea. We can get images of smartphones a lot in the following years.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

I would be OK to narrow it down to Analog Telephones. --Jarekt (talk) 01:27, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Seconding analog phones in particular. Less product guide and more museum. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:32, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

•  Support(Z28scrambler (talk) 22:19, 2 July 2017 (UTC))
•  Support Analogue/analog phones. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:07, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - July - Telephones

Theatre buildings

theatre buildings; proposed by Maimaid

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Does that include opera houses? – b_jonas 13:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

I guess so Jiel (talk) 21:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support as a variation of the "buiding" theme. It should clearly include internal pictures as well in the examples gallery, IMHO.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:18, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:41, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

If we re going for undocumented theatre like in other competitions, here is the quary of User:Incola I've adapted. These are the opera houses missing P18 on wikidata in Italy (Q30). I can show how to change the line of country. For theaters building, this one is an example with a specific region of Italy but I am not sure about the item because it is used both for the art and the building concept. Also, try to tune the region to a smaller size if your time run outs. I have a poor connection so I can't make a lot of tests.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:21, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Of course undocumented buildings that don't have an item (i.e. an article) should be also welcome. the tool is just giving you some advice.--Alexmar983 (talk) 02:22, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Ivan2010 ^(talk) 19:30, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 14:27, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Fauvirt (talk) 10:45, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

  Added more examples. – b_jonas 18:49, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - December - Theatre Buildings--Jarekt (talk) 13:16, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Tools of the trade

See also: Tools of the trade

could include Household objects

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Towers

Towers (look-out, television tower, lighthouse, church tower, water tower); proposed by F. Riedelio

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•  Support -- Jiel (talk) 09:38, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support BD2412 T 04:08, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support, it a standard theme, but to be scheduled far away from Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/themes#Clocks_on_public_buildings.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:34, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:42, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I would like it too. --Milseburg (talk) 12:29, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
• ok we should do this before the end of the year.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:38, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - November - Towers--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:47, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Town halls (city halls)

town halls; proposed by Maimaid

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Oh come on! We've had Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - May - Mother Nature Strikes Back, Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - November - Windows, and Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - March - Inside / Outside. There's no way you're going to add a fourth category matching the same pair of photos I submitted for the first one of those. That's just uninspired.  Oppose – b_jonas 13:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC) Very well. Changing my vote to  Neutral. – b_jonas 10:57, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

•  Comment We really had a lot of similar challenges about buildings but we can store it here for a while... but it has nothing wrong per se.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:14, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:43, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Support if limited to include only undocumented townhalls (i.e. townhalls not yet on Commons, we don't need more pics of Paris City Hall). This will encourage photographers to widen out and hopefully result in more images that can be added to WP articles. --P 1 9 9  ✉ 15:19, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Support I support this topic as a stand-alone, but prefer that it is combined with a separate topic suggested above for "Parliaments and legislative buildings". I left a comment in that topic about the difficulty it may be for some because of the long distances that may be required to travel. I think that the two topics could be merged into one—"Legislative buildings"—that includes national (eg. parliaments), regional, and municipal (eg. town halls) legislative buildings. AHeneen (talk) 00:17, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Trougnouf (talk) 19:20, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Nicholas Gemini (talk) 09:52, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - March - Town halls.

Tractors

Tractors revolutionized farming around the world. Unfortunately, or depending on your view, fortunately, a lot of old tractors are left unwanted in fields or fence rows forgotten by time and elements. Some however, get restored and are on display, and some are still in use worldwide. Photos of tractors of any shape, size, style, condition or color from around the world.

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•  Support fine, it is useful.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:05, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 11:48, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I have already uploaded several images of tractors --Assianir (talk ) 09:52, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 17:36, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support--Ivan2010 ^(talk) 19:30, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

We probably need more "agricultural machineries" than simple tractors. So please if someone sees this comment and agree before we start the challenge maybe we can enlarge the title. Or we can do this idea later, just saying.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:58, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support--KaiBorgeest (talk) 22:50, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--CatalpaSpirit (talk) 07:45, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - April - Tractors

Traditional Games

Old games, japanese billiards, hammers game, frog game, table football, giant dominoes proposed by --Pierre André (talk) 21:02, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support We did not accept that one about card and table games, copyright was one of the issues, so let's do this one.--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:24, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I add Spinning tops, and "javelot". --Pierre André (talk) 09:55, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 02:20, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support. There are many potential subjects that don't have good (or any) pictures. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:10, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ok, now I'm getting worried that if I support every theme, my vote might not count too much. But I think I'm still within the line. – b_jonas 16:45, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support but only with a different name. "Traditional games" is very broad and could refer to any sort of game other than a video game (as well as video game versions of non-computer games). Maybe "mechanical games", "pre-1930 games", or just "old analog games"? — Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:36, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - June - Traditional games

Traditional professions

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•  Support Very useful / educational, and an excellent challenge to find. - MPF (talk) 13:28, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:45, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support it is always an interesting topic.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:16, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment The "Manufacturing" challenge in June 2016 produced a lot of images of traditional profession (see also the winners). So even if the support here increases, my advice would be to schedule this one at a certain distance.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:28, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment If more support show up we could schedule this in December when a lot of nativity scenes take place, but it's just an idea, we can wait for the festivals of the spring-summer season as well.--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:14, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very useful --Pierre André (talk) 10:44, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:31, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 12:39, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:11, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment We were talking about doing this one in December. Or is some other time better? --Jarekt (talk) 01:17, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo_challenge/2017 - December - Traditional Professions--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:44, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Trash and waste management

proposed by Alexmar983

It replaces the previous "Pollution and Trash management" (considered too generic)--Alexmar983 (talk) 13:41, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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•  Comment I propose April for this one, it is earth day. Than after that we can do pollution after a while.--Alexmar983 (talk) 17:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Well we're in February and noone agreed so far... comments please.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:59, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Does this include random trash lying around somewhere? That can be an unexpectedly fun thing to shoot, in my experience. --El Grafo (talk) 11:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Actually, yes. I though also about that option too. Of course it is not as informative as other possible image, so I am not "pushing" in that direction in the gallery, but it looks fine to me.--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:42, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Com.sebastian (talk) 19:36, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 13:52, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 05:10, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support oh! this is a good one. – b_jonas 14:29, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

"good one"? This is the one of my theme proposal with biggest support. Ok for a winter month, IMHO. So, quite soon. Let's not spoil December but maybe January.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:41, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - January - Trash and waste management --Jarekt (talk) 16:09, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Trees and forests

current challenge 08/2019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Levin Holtkamp (talk • contribs) 17:30, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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•  Support as a proposer --Jarekt (talk) 12:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support – b_jonas 15:37, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Alexmar983 (talk) 05:38, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Nxr-at (talk) 11:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment I think there is potential here for at least two separate challenges. I would divide it into "Lonely Trees" (which is a cliché on its own) and "Forests". Photographically, these are two very different things, requiring very different approaches. --El Grafo (talk) 15:30, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

I like that idea. Maybe when we do it we will constraint the challenge to one of those two. --Jarekt (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
•  Support El Grafo's idea, pick one or the other and then save the other one for maybe a year later. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:16, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --ThomasLendt (talk) 16:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC) Great! Please split into "Lonely Trees" and "Forests"
•  Support, particularly for the "lonely trees" option. BD2412 T 02:47, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Yes per User BD2412. The option "solitary tree" is an especially challenging subject, as aesthetically convincing backgrounds are often hard to come by. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:26, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Tunnels and Underpasses

Specifically man made tunnels for vehicular (land, air or water) or pedestrian traffic to flow under or through an obstacle. No pipelines or "natural" tunnels, or cave entrances that could be another challenge.

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•  Support Actually caves is already in another challange, so this should be about vehicular or pedestrian traffic tunnels. In any case, as I said with obelisks, sundials, clocks on public buildings... I usually support these specific themes about "constructions". I put the gallery. Maybe we should rename it "tunnels and underpasses"--Alexmar983 (talk) 03:11, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like this. BD2412 T 01:55, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 17:06, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Musicaline (talk) 16:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Yeah, this is useful. Some road tunnels are hard to photograph, because they're exactly the place where you don't want to stop your car and take photos. Also, the insides are dark and unevenly lit, which also adds difficulty for taking good photos. – b_jonas 16:48, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

I was thinking also to our friends of Open Street Map, they also need pictures of these places for the maps.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:04, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Fauvirt (talk) 06:11, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - November - Tunnels and Underpasses is ready. You can change the month.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:53, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Used for Commons:Photo challenge/2018 - March - Tunnels and Underpasses--Jarekt (talk) 04:10, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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•  Support I like the technical aspect of the problem.--Alexmar983 (talk) 18:27, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
•  Support My only issue with that is the low volume of volunteers able to submit photos for this challenge. -- RTA 16:36, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
•  Support but I would expand it to allow through water photographs where one does not need specialized underwater equipment. --Jarekt (talk) 16:04, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support with the caveat proposed by Jarekt - photos of things that are underwater, whether taken by pricey underwater equipment or by a person standing on land. BD2412 T 04:09, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - August - Underwater photography--Jarekt (talk) 12:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Unfamiliar Vehicles

Vehicles: cars, ships, trains, locomotives, airplanes, buses, fire engines, etc.; proposed by User:Jarekt

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Vehicles of public transportation

It was: Busses (and trams) of public transport Busses and trams of public transport ; proposed by Maimaid

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•  Support Ibex73 (talk) 19:10, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
• Tentative  Support as good educational value, but (a) already well-covered in many cases, and (b) could be problems in some regions with no Freedom of Panorama rules (are vehicle designs copyrightable??) and/or personality rights (particularly for interior views of vehicles) if people using the transport appear in the pics - MPF (talk) 14:01, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support but lt's change to something like "vehicles of public transportation" or "trams, buses and trolleybuses"--Alexmar983 (talk) 11:40, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 15:12, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Nicholas Gemini (talk) 19:41, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

So can I rename it? vehicles of public transportation? motor and electric vehicles of public transportation? buses, trams and trolleybuses? Any suggestion?--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Renamed.

•  Support --KaiBorgeest (talk) 22:44, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I can go and document some streetcars, cable cars, and other interesting vehicles in San Francisco. dllu (t,c) 21:04, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - May - Vehicles of public transportation--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Video: verbs

Short videos of verbs, like dancing, singing, wood chopping, kite-surfing, diving, etc. --Jarekt (talk) 12:24, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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• Pole Climbing
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• Cave base jumping
• Mountainboarding

•  Support ok. It does fill a gap.--Alexmar983 (talk) 05:21, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
•  Support ok.--Pierre André (talk) 22:04, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
•  Support love it — Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:36, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Fauvirt (talk) 12:31, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support We currently don't have many of these. Very useful. MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:37, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
•  Support as a proposer --Jarekt (talk) 18:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Water Supply Infrastructure

English: "Where does your water come from? How does it get to you?"

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It could, but that seems worthy of being it's own theme, as well. --Junkyardsparkle (talk) 20:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

 Support Nice idea -- Jiel (talk) 21:51, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

 Support water is a very important topic and deserves a good image coverage.--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:20, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

 Support --Jarekt (talk) 14:50, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

 Support --Ruthven (msg) 13:33, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

 Done Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - October - Water Supply Infrastructure --Alexmar983 (talk) 03:36, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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•  Support Why not ? Musicaline (talk) 09:01, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I wanted to propose this last year, maybe I forgot. Nice idea.--Alexmar983 (talk) 10:05, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
•  Info The title doesn't work for the UK. In British English we would usually call them 'weather vanes" MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:32, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Info I suggest to broaden the scope to all sort of things mounted on the roof top including finials and fancy local architectural features like guckehürle. --AFBorchert (talk) 08:55, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ibex73 (talk) 15:41, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - please broaden the scope to all kind of wether vanes ThomasLendt (talk) 06:32, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, indeed: a befitting title: Weather vanes. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 13:25, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Seefan 2012 (talk) 09:44, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
• Question: For countries without FoP, is the thought that the whole of the device would be considered the "useful article" such that it would not qualify for copyright? Or would the graphic/sculptural elements be sufficiently separable that they may cause problems for uploads? — Rhododendrites ^talk |  18:53, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 09:05, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo_challenge/2019_-_November_-_Weather_vanes --Jarekt (talk) 13:56, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Wheels

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 Support--Jarekt (talk) 11:55, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

•  Support I prefer wheels that are in motion. BD2412 T 02:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Neutral A great theme, but we just had spirals and then staircases, maybe this can wait a few months, to give some chance for variety. Samsara (talk) 11:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

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 Support Wide appeal and variety L-Bit (talk) 03:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

 Support Samsara (talk) 11:53, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

 Support--Covetrick (talk) 16:01, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

See Commons:Photo challenge/2015 - November - Windows

Working Animals

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•  SupportIbex73 (talk) 21:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Animals will always be a draw card and will fit in well with the needs of Commons
•  Support --Maire (talk) 23:17, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support. This topic has a great encyclopedic value. --Brateevsky {talk} 16:51, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - excellent topic. Let's do this. BD2412 T 16:29, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 18:07, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Used at Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - July - Working animals--Jarekt (talk) 15:58, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Working women

For the next upcoming VisibleWikiwoman campaign I would suggest to do a more focused challenge here. I think showing women at their work would open the chance of getting good pictures of notable women in the science world or female politicians. At the same time we would have a chance to collect more pictures of female professionals to illustrate articles about professions. I am not set on the theme of working women, I could also imagine Women in Sports, or Women in Sciences, or something similar. But it would be good to be prepared, the next campaign is also being prepared elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kritzolina (talk • contribs) 23:13, 14 December 2018‎ (UTC)

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•  Support working women sounds like a good idea for March 2019! Seeeko (talk) 17:39, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Really good and useful idea! We need more diverse images of women, and at the same time, women images illustrating articles about professions. Señoritaleona (talk) 15:26, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 20:29, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:15, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

•  Support ...and it don't have to be in March...  :-) // Zquid (talk) 14:26, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

 Done Commons:Photo challenge/2019 - May - Working Women

Wharf

Also, jetties, piers, docks, quays, etc -- Shillings1005 (talk) 07:11, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

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•  Support --Kritzolina (talk) 19:10, 15 April 2020 (UTC) Looking forward to the month we will be able to get such images again!
•  Support -Céléda (talk) 18:56, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support-- Calistemon (talk) 08:34, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  SupportThomasLendt (talk) 19:54, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --S.Hinakawa (talk) 13:16, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --KaiBorgeest (talk) 22:58, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Redalert2fan (talk) 19:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Leonor K. Sullivan notwithstanding. --Kbh3^rdtalk 16:55, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Wrecks and wreckage (was Grounded Ships)

Photos of ships or large boats that have been permanently grounded either by nature or man. (Z28scrambler (talk) 22:38, 2 July 2017 (UTC))

Can we enlarge it somehow? I have fear it is too specific.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:58, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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•  Support – If it could be expanded to, say, "Wrecks and wreckage". That would provide more opportunities. I added some images. – Shillings1005 (talk) 04:56, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Albarubescens 21:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Jarekt (talk) 00:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support dllu (t,c) 08:15, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --ThomasLendt (talk) 16:10, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support A profund challenge! Capturing the remnants of man-made artefacts. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -Seefan 2012 (talk) 15:27, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I actually love wrecks and document them wherever I can --Kritzolina (talk) 17:13, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support and added more example images. – b_jonas 11:48, 1 September 2019 (UTC)