These pages on Commons. They explain the POTY rules.
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Sitenotice
The notice is put in MediaWiki:Sitenotice at Commons (& other wikis if they choose).
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Announcements
To be posted to mailing lists and village pumps to alert people that the competition is on.
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Template/banners
Used on the image pages of images that are eligible in the competition.
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Image captions
One-line description of each image, especially needed for finalists.
Please consider adding yourself to the committee as a language contact, to assist users in that language!! We would like at least one person per language listed above.
{{warning|Round 1 voting has closed. Finals voting opens on the <FINALDATE>. Until that time you can request a voting token, but you won't be able to use it to vote until after Finals voting opens.}}
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2009 Picture of the Year competition will be held <insert date here>. Any user registered at a Wikimedia wiki since 2009 or prior with more than 200 edits as of 16 January 2010 (UTC) is welcome to vote.
Over 890 images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plants shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems and diagrams created with the most modern technology and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures for all flavors.
Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. In the final round, when only 20 images are left, you must decide on one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.
Wikimedia Commons is looking forward to your decision in determining the ultimate featured picture of 2009 on <insert date here>.
As announced before, Wikimedia Commons has now opened the 2009 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year competition.
We're now interested in your opinion on which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2009. For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Feel free to vote for as many images as you like, there's no limit in vote numbers. The Round 1 category winners and the top 10 overall will then make it to the final.
Last year's Picture of the Year. You can decide which one will be its successor!
Dear Wikimedians,
The final round for the 2009 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest is now open!
The top [38] images were chosen from the first round, thanks to voters like you. In order to determine the very best picture of the remaining candidates, you have exactly one vote left.
The 2009 Picture of the Year competition has now concluded and we are happy to announce the results:
WINNER: <IMAGEDESCRIPTION> (<IMAGENAME>) by <IMAGEAUTHOR>. <NUMVOTES> votes
RUNNER-UP: <IMAGEDESCRIPTION> (<IMAGENAME>) by <IMAGEAUTHOR>. <NUMVOTES> votes
2ND RUNNER-UP: <IMAGEDESCRIPTION> (<IMAGENAME>) by <IMAGEAUTHOR>. <NUMVOTES> votes
In the first round, there were <NUMVOTERS> voters for the 890 images in the competition. The top [XX] made it to the final, where <FINALNUMVOTERS> voters voted. Congratulations to all the contributors who helped create these beautiful works and make them available to the world as free content.
The finalists have been selected! Vote in the 2009 Commons Picture of the Year competition. The final voting round to select the 2009 Picture of the Year is open now. Voting is open from 4 June 2010, 00:00 (UTC) till 11 June 2010, 23:59 (UTC) .