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Commons Picture of the Year contest in final round

By Ral315, 21 January 2008

The Commons Picture of the Year competition for 2007 has reached its final round, which closes on January 24. The 28 finalists can be seen below:

Antelope Canyon
Credit: Lucas Löffler
License: PD

Australasian Pipit
Credit: benjamint444
License: GFDL

Braunvieh cattle
Credit: Daniel Schwen
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5, GFDL

Breaking wave, Plogoff
Credit: Henri Camus
License: CC-BY-SA 1.0

Broadway Tower
Credit: Newton2
License: CC-BY 2.5

Brown bear
Credit: Malene Thyssen
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5, GFDL

Colored pencils
Credit: Michael Maggs
License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Colosseum
Credit: Diliff
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5

Culex mosquitoes
Credit: James Gathany
License: CC-BY 2.5

Dactylopterus volitans
Credit: Beckmannjan
License: GFDL

Dew
Credit: Luc Viatour
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5/2.0/1.0, GFDL

Egeskov Castle
Credit: Malene Thyssen
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5, GFDL

Equisetum pratense
Credit: Luc Viatour
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5/2.0/1.0, GFDL

Firefighter
Credit: Kathrine McDowell
License: PD

Foucault pendulum
Credit: DemonDeLuxe
License: GFDL

Fulmer Falls
Credit: Derek Ramsey
License: GFDL-1.2

Giza pyramid complex
Credit: Ricardo Liberato
License: CC-BY-SA 2.0

Green turtle
Credit: Mila Zinkova
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5/2.0/1.0, GFDL

Klöntalersee
Credit: Ikiwaner
License: GFDL

New York City
Credit: Paulo Barcellos Jr.
License: CC-BY-SA 2.0

Old book bindings
Credit: Tom Murphy VII
License: CC-BY-SA 2.0, GFDL

Palace of Westminster
Credit: Diliff
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5

Red squirrel
Credit: Ray eye
License: CC-BY-SA 2.0-DE

Rotterdam Blitz memorial
Credit: Y.S. Groen
License: CC-BY 2.5, GFDL

Salt
Credit: Luca Galuzzi
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5

Swedish Rally
Credit: Christopher Batt
License: CC-BY-SA 2.0

Terrace rice fields
Credit: Jialiang Gao
License: CC-BY-SA 3.0/2.5/2.0/1.0, GFDL

Whale shark
Credit: Zac Wolf
License: CC-BY-SA 2.5

This year is the first that the voting is taking place outside the Commons; custom software was written by Bryan, allowing the vote to be held on the Wikimedia Toolserver. Voting via the Wikimedia Toolserver avoids edit conflicts, and allows users to make all their choices much more quickly. Information about the voting method and how to get a voting token is at Commons:Picture of the Year/2007/Voting. Results will not be made public until the end of voting, at which time the entire database of all votes (without the names of the individual users who made each vote) will be released for public inspection.
Also this week:

2007 in review — Parser changes — Pic of the year — WikiWorld — News and notes — In the news — Features and admins — Technology report
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