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Picture of the Year 2020
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Official policies
 | These policies were determined by the POTY 2020 committee and should not be modified without committee approval. For questions or proposed changes, please use the talk page. |
Voting
Rounds
- There will be two rounds in POTY 2020:
- Round 1 will include all images promoted to featured picture status in 2020.
- Round 2 will include the top 30 (+α) images from Round 1.
- The top image will be declared as the Picture of the Year. The next two will be featured as runners-up.
Dates
Round 1 of POTY 2020
- from 18 September 2021, 18:00
- until 1 October 2021, 23:59:59
Round 2 of POTY 2020
- from 15 October 2021, 15:00
- until 29 October 2021, 23:59:59
Beta testing periods
- There will be several days of beta testing period, so we can check whether the voting script is working successfully.
- Votes in the testing period — the several days before the official opening date — are also eligible. The committee will count them as well as the votes cast in the later period.
- If you find a bug for the voting tool, please report it to MediaWiki talk:Gadget-EnhancedPOTY.js; report other issues to Commons talk:Picture of the Year/2020.
Voter eligibility
- Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before 1 January 2021 [UTC].
- This user account must have at least 75 live edits on any single Wikimedia project before 1 January 2021 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2020 Contest Eligibility tool.
- Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).
- Notes
- Even if a user has multiple eligible accounts, each user can only cast votes from one account.
- Votes from IP users will be considered invalid.
- Votes cast by ineligible users/accounts, multiple/duplicate votes cast in violation of the rules will be invalidated.
- Due to the large vote volume, we are unable to accept voters that do not meet this criteria as determined by the official POTY 2020 voter eligibility tool.
- We may contact you on your talk page for up to 1 year after you vote to alert you to contest results and invite you to participate in next year's contest. You may opt-out at any time.
Voting rules
In Round 1 - multiple vote - eligible users may vote for as many candidates as they wish to support (one vote per image).
In the final Round 2 - three votes - eligible users may vote for only 3 finalists. Each of these 3 votes counts equal and one candidate must be only voted once. Note: if someone casts more than three votes, only the 3 most recent votes will be counted.
Images
Categories
| Galleries by content | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Arthropods (67) |  Other birds (92) |  Mammals (38) |  Other animals (58) |
 Plants and fungi (93) |  People and human activities (64) |  Paintings, textiles and works on paper (57) |  Settlements (51) |
 Castles and fortifications (18) |  Religious buildings (28) |  Constructions and buildings (54) |  Artificially illuminated outdoor spaces (48) |
 Infrastructure (18) |  Interiors and details (41) |  Interiors of religious buildings (46) |  Frescos, ceilings and stained glass (48) |
 Panoramic views (32) |  Nature views (93) |  Water (33) |  Astronomy, satellite and outer space (5) |
 Maps, diagrams and illustrations (8) |  Vehicles and crafts (29) |  Sculptures (23) |  Objects, shells and miscellaneous (60) |
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Image eligibility
- Round 1
- All Featured Pictures from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.
- Final
- The top 30 images from Round 1, by number of votes, from any category will go to the final round — the categories are irrelevant when it comes to counting the votes.
- If top two images in a category are not in the top 30 of all images, they will be also promoted to the Final to guarantee a diverse final.
A candidate should not be disqualified or replaced without careful discussion as long as it is not deleted (Ex. : a deletion request alone is not enough reason to disqualify an image.)
POTY awards
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Picture of the Year -
POTY #2 -
POTY #3 -
POTY Finalists -
POTY Category tops
