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Official policies
[edit]Dates
[edit]- Round 1 of POTY 2012
- from 16 January 2013 (Wednesday)
- until 30 January 2013 (Wednesday)
- The first three days are beta testing period. Please check whether the voting script is working successfully.
- Votes in the testing period — the first three days — 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:EnhancedPOTY.js; report other things to Commons talk:Picture of the Year/2012.
- Round 2 of POTY 2012
- from 7 February 2013 (Thursday)
- until 14 February 2013 (Thursday)
Voting
[edit]Rounds
[edit]- There will be two rounds in POTY 2012.
- Round 1 will include all images promoted to featured picture status in 2012.
- Round 2 will include the top 36 (+α) images from Round 1.
- The top image will be declared as the Picture of the Year. The top three images will be featured as runners-up.
Voter eligibility
[edit]- Your account must pass the official POTY 2012 voter eligibility tool. To do so, you must:
- …have registered before 1 January 2013 UTC
- …and have more than 75 edits before 1 January 2013 (that is 31 December 2012 (UTC) / 1 January 2013, 00:00 (UTC)) in any single Wikimedia project.
- Users must vote with an account meeting the hereinbefore requirements either on Commons or another Wikimedia project.
- For other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL.
- Due to the large vote volume, we are unable to accept voters that do not meet these criteria as determined by the official POTY 2012 voter eligibility tool.
Voting rules
[edit]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 - single vote - eligible users may vote for only one finalist. Note: if a voter happen to cast more than one vote, only the latest (newest) vote will be counted as eligible.
Images
[edit]Categories
[edit]POTY categories | ||||
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Arthropods (41)
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Lepidoptera (74)
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Birds (62)
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Mammals (27)
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Other animals (32)
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Plants and fungi (50)
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Bones, shells and fossils (18)
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People and human activities (63)
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Paintings and illustrations (62)
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Sculptures, vitral and inscriptions (44)
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Cities and ruins (61)
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Constructions and buildings (98)
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Interiors and details (62)
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Panoramic views (60)
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Nature views (60)
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Astronomy, satellite and outer space (39)
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Maps and diagrams (44)
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Vehicles and crafts (40)
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Objects, rocks and miscellaneous (40)
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Videos and animations (12)
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Image eligibility
[edit]- Round 1
- All Featured Pictures from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012.
- Final
- The top 36 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 category #1 are not in the top 36, 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 barnstar
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Picture of the Year
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POTY #2
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POTY #3
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POTY Finalists
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POTY Category tops
Translation
[edit]Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Translations
Announcements
[edit]Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Translations#Announcements and Sitenotices
Tools and bots
[edit]Checking votes
[edit]- Vote button which can check voter eligibility
- MediaWiki:EnhancedPOTY.js (Help)
- False positive: MediaWiki talk:EnhancedPOTY.js#False positive
- Table: will be generated by Kalan's Toolserver tool
Abuse filters
[edit]- Voting by anons (there is already a filter)
- Manipulation: check whether username=voter, prevent removal or change of other user's votes, prevent adding a vote to a picture, if there is already one vote by the user