Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Dear Event organizer,
I hope you’re doing well. I’m pleased to invite you to join our upcoming office-hour session: Event Registration on Wikimedia Commons, taking place on 28 November 2025 at 16:00 UTC via Zoom.
As an organiser who already holds the “Event Organizer” rights on Wikimedia Commons and is using or exploring the Event Registration tool, we would greatly appreciate your participation.
The session will be led by Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF), Program Officer for Culture and Heritage at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Purpose of the session:
To walk through the workflow of enabling registration for your events on CampaignEvents extension (via the Event Registration tool) on Event Center.
To share best practices, tips, and examples from event organisers within the Wikimedia movement.
To provide a space for questions, peer-sharing and support for organisers implementing registration workflows.
Next steps:
Please register yourself at event page to confirm your participation. We will then send the meeting agenda, access link, and any preparatory materials.
Feel free to share or forward this invitation to any fellow organisers in your network who hold the organiser rights.
Thank you for considering this invitation. We’re excited to bring together our organiser community and walk through the registration workflow together.
Warm regards,
On behalf of the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hello Ranjithsiji!
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As we step into a new year, we’re happy to invite you to take part in “Your Most Memorable Shot 2025.”
Since 2018, photographers from across the Wikimedia community have come together at the beginning of each year to share the photographs that meant the most to them over the past twelve months. Now in its eighth iteration, this tradition continues to be a space for reflection, storytelling, and celebrating meaningful moments through photography.
Whether you are a member of the Commons Photographers User Group or not, you are warmly welcome to participate and invite others too. Every image carries a story, and your perspective helps enrich this collective showcase.
Whenever you’re ready, please select your most cherished photograph from 2025 and share it on the designated page.
The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2026, so we hope you’ll join us before then.
We look forward to discovering the moments that made your year memorable and to continuing this wonderful tradition together.
Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Greetings Ranjithsiji,
You are warmly invited to participate in the Indian edition of Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, an international documentation contest organized on Wikimedia Commons. This campaign invites participants to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folktales, folk games, folk religion, mythology and many more. Let's join and contribute to protect and develop our intangible Indian culture, which consists of customs or active expressions that we have acquired from our ancestors and passed down to our offspring.
How to Contribute?
Submissions for the Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 contest on Wikimedia Commons are open from 1 February to 31 March 2026.
Getting started is easy. Join the campaign signing up the event and capturing and then uploading;
📷 Photographs | 🎧 Audio recordings | 🎥 Videos
which are related to folklore and intangible cultural heritage from your region. Use your Wikimedia account and upload your entries to Wikimedia Commons under the Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 campaign.
For detailed guidelines, eligibility criteria, and upload instructions, please visit the project page on Wikimedia Commons. For any questions, reach out to us via contactsahya.org.in
Join us in celebrating and preserving our living traditions. :)
(You have been sent this message because you have been a part of Wiki loves Folklore India edition last years. Lets continue to embrace our folk culture and drive through the path towards creating the largest database collection of folk Images on the internet.)
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Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hello Ranjithsiji,
The world’s traditions are disappearing faster than we can document them, but you can help change that.
On behalf of the Wiki Loves Folklore International Team, we are reaching out to invite you to contribute to the 2026 edition of our global campaign.
Share Your Cultural Heritage with the World
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international media contest dedicated to documenting the "intangible" beauty of our cultures. Whether it’s the vibrant colours of a folk festival, the rhythm of a traditional dance, the secrets of a family recipe, or the legends of your hometown, your media helps preserve these legacies for generations to come.
How You Can Contribute
Participating is simple, and every upload contributes to the world's largest free knowledge repository:
Capture: Take photos, record videos, or capture audio of folk activities, music, mythology, or traditional wear.
Upload: Share your files on Wikimedia Commons between 1 February 2026 and 31 March 2026.
Win: Beyond the satisfaction of preservation, there are international prizes for the most impactful contributions.
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While you were not among the six candidates elected to the Board this year, we want to express our sincere gratitude for your participation and your dedication to the user group. Contested elections are a vital part of our community's health, and your involvement ensures a robust democratic process.
We hope you will continue to stay active within the CPUG and consider participating in future election cycles.
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Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
2024 Picture of the Year:Mundari man polishing the horns of one of his Watusi cows using a mixture of cow urine and ash as a ritualistic and protective practice in a temporary cattle camp in Terekeka, South Sudan.
Dear Wikimedian,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2025 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year is the twentieth 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 favourite images featured on Commons during the last year (2025) 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 top 5% of most popular images in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just five images to become the Picture of the Year.
Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Dear Wikimedian,
You are receiving this message because we noticed that you previously voted in the Picture of the Year contest. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favourite images featured on Commons during the last year (2025) 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 five images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2025.
Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi everyone,
Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.
Here are your top three winning images:
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area. Attribution: WAFA (Q2915969) / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia. Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers. Attribution: public domain
You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed here: Full 2025 Results
I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to see that level of growth and community engagement.
Thank you to everyone who voted, helped organize, and generally made the contest such a huge success this year!
Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,
I hope you’re well and enjoy your time as a photographer on Wikimedia Commons. In my role of the new chair of the user group, I have a couple of updates to share with you.
After the election, the new board met for the first time on March 21 and immediately got to work. We elected the organization’s officers and decided to move from quarterly to monthly board meetings. We believe meeting more frequently will create more opportunities to serve our members effectively and help move the group forward.
We also successfully applied for a pre-conference at the upcoming Wikimania in Paris (July 21–25). If you’re planning to attend the conference, please consider joining us on July 21th for a day full of conversations about photography and Commons. Please sign up here if you’re interested.
And finally, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our first online meeting, which will take place on May 31. Our member Wojciech, an experienced concert photographer, will give a talk on photographing orchestras during live performances. I’m especially excited that we’ll have the opportunity to meet online again and am very much looking forward to this event.
Latest comment: 6 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Dear Ranjithsiji,
We sincerely appreciate your contributions and support in making this year's campaign a remarkable success. Together, we received more than 100,000+ media submissions from over 140 countries, with 1,755 participants taking part in the event.
As we prepare for future editions, we would love to hear about your experience. Please take a few minutes to complete our feedback form and share your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas for improving the campaign.
The results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 will be announced soon, so stay tuned!
Thank you once again for being part of this global celebration of folklore and cultural heritage. We look forward to your feedback and hope to see you again next year!
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