Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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Dear Wikimedian,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2022 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the seventeenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2022) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and the two most popular images in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just three images to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 1 will end on UTC.

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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You are receiving this message because we noticed that you voted in Round 1 of the 2022 Picture of the Year contest, but not yet in the second round. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2022) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2022.

Round 2 will end at UTC.

Click here to vote now!

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Permission to Upload MP3 (.mp3) Files. How to do. I don't know :-)

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@Jdforrester: Dear Jdforrester, I want to upload the .mp3 file type. The file is my exclusive creation and possession. I wish to upload it under the CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 license, which protects the right to be attributed the authorship of one's work, prohibits its use for commercial purposes and modification but which allows anyone to freely redistribute or print the contents.

But I don't know how to do it, ie I don't know who to address the request for authorization to upload the mp3 file. The Commons system, otherwise, does not allow you to do this. Please would you like to help me. I'm waiting for a kind response. Thank you. Edadac (talk) 12:27, 26 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi there! You can upload MP3s via Special:UploadWizard – see for example File:Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus — Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 — 1st movement — Bui-Nguyen Trieu-Tuong — MusOpen Project.mp3. However, CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 is a prohibited licence as it is not open. Please review Commons:Licensing. James F. (talk) 14:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

De-adminship warning

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Dear Jdforrester, I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your admin rights on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Feb-Mar 2024 before 13th March (UTC), and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months, if you fail to do so you will automatically lose your rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you! -- CptViraj (talk) 20:52, 12 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

File:Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland logo.svg

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Hi Jdforrester, can you please make this file available (best together with the image description) to me so that I can reupload it on German Wikipedia? There we don't have any TOO issues with this logo. -- Chaddy (talk) 16:32, 16 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Chaddy: Hey, this was originally uploaded to dewiki and tranfered here; you can just undelete Datei:Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland logo.svg to get it back, and that way that'll credit the original uploader etc. – does that work for you? James F. (talk) 19:56, 17 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ah, I didn't know that it was originally uploaded to de-WP. Thank you! -- Chaddy (talk) 20:11, 17 August 2024 (UTC)Reply