Commons:Picture of the Year/2019/Rules
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Picture of the Year 2019
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Official policies
These policies were determined by the POTY 2019 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 2019:
- Round 1 will include all images promoted to featured picture status in 2019.
- 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 2019
- from 8 March 2020, 15:00
- until 22 March 2020, 23:59:59
Round 2 of POTY 2019
- from 5 April 2020, 15:00
- until 19 April 2020, 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/2019.
Voter eligibility
- Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
- This user account must have at least 75 live edits on any single Wikimedia project before Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2019 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 2019 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 | |||
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Arthropods (85) | Other birds (91) | Mammals (43) | Other animals (47) |
Plants and fungi (92) | People and human activities (93) | Paintings, textiles and works on paper (94) | Settlements (47) |
Castles and fortifications (21) | Religious buildings (41) | Constructions and buildings (36) | Artificially illuminated outdoor spaces (27) |
Infrastructure (21) | Interiors and details (33) | Interiors of religious buildings (60) | Frescos, ceilings and stained glass (41) |
Panoramic views (63) | Nature views (130) | Water (59) | Astronomy, satellite and outer space (12) |
Maps, diagrams and illustrations (11) | Vehicles and crafts (31) | Sculptures (11) | Objects, shells and miscellaneous (68) |
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Image eligibility
- Round 1
- All Featured Pictures from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
- 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
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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