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POTY 2023 || Introduction – Rules – Discussion – Translations – Committee – Help || R1 Candidates – Gallery || R2 Gallery || Results

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On the POTY 2023 page it says: "Round 1 begins on 1 February 2024, 00:00 and ends on 14 February 2024, 23:59:59 [UTC]". Well, I haven't been able to vote and still can't. My account is eligible. --Minilammas (talk) 16:01, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Minilammas: That was a placeholder. In theory the 2023 page shouldn't be linked from anywhere yet. :) @Legoktm: it may be a good idea to replace it with "soon" or something regardless. — Rhododendrites talk |  20:03, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So when will it take place, if all goes according to plan? Nardog (talk) 06:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Rhododendrites, @Legoktm: is there something we can help? Emha (talk) 16:19, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for being MIA. I'll try to have an update by the weekend. Legoktm (talk) 07:07, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Legoktm, It's been a month. Any update? Shawnqual (talk) 05:08, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Waiting for it[edit]

Any date? ★ 21:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support your question. Eryakaas (talk) 18:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
+1 — Draceane talkcontrib. 19:20, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ZZZ ★ 01:37, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I received an announcement with a link to this misleading page. I was asked to check my participating images before voting will start. But the page tells me the voting has already been held in February 2024. August Geyler (talk) 08:48, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, it hasn't happened yet. BigDom (talk) 11:54, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Call for comitee members[edit]

Dear Comitee members (@Legoktm, AntiCompositeNumber, and ZI Jony: ), please let us know if you are able to work on the contest. If not, it is time to look for new committee members to keep the contest going. Obviously the community would not be happy to see this project cease to exist. Jklamo (talk) 19:28, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jklamo: , we are working on it, will start at earliest. (@Legoktm, AntiCompositeNumber, and Rhododendrites: ). Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 13:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nice to hear that! The community is already looking forward to the launch of the contest in the coming weeks. Jklamo (talk) 13:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I believe it may be time to look for new committee members who have enough time to utilize for this project. The current members seem to busy with other things in life and so far have not provided any answers to indicate if or when the contest will take place for quite a long while now. It has been one or another form of "we're on to it". @Legoktm last stated there would be an update over two months ago and has been MIA since then. If not new members then someone needs to have some level of oversight over the committee to ensure that the project goes ahead on time. Shawnqual (talk) 05:17, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Shawnqual: , as I said earlier, we are working on it! I face some error in the tool, maybe because of the recent changes in toolforge or I still didn't get access to all over. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 07:19, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

POTY runs on a complicated set of scripts with no real documentation. Legoktm is, as far as I know, the only committee member (and one of the only people) who knows how to use those scripts and, more importantly, how to fix things when the scripts don't work as expected. Lego seems to be busy with real life these last couple months, hence we have no updates. I don't think we should try to run the scripts without Lego around -- we don't want to promote it and start it just to be unable to fix a problem. Last year's was held in April/May, but the previous two years weren't held until the end of the year, so it's not like we're on a rigid schedule. If more time goes by and we don't hear from Lego there's only one other active user that I know of who understands the scripts, and I'll spare that person a bunch of pings for the time being. — Rhododendrites talk |  12:00, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the news and explanations Rhododendrites! I hope Legoktm is fine and nothing serious happened to him 🍀 -- Giles Laurent (talk) 13:36, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe one of the previous committee members can also help you guys understand the scripts in case Lego doesn't come back any time soon? Here are the links : 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. -- Giles Laurent (talk) 17:16, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
With the exception of Firefly (pinging now despite my "spare that person" comment above), people who ran it in previous years have been explicit about not wanting to do so again. I get the sense that Firefly was glad for Lego to take it over, but if we don't hear from Lego maybe they want to give it another go? The timing isn't as dire as when Firefly stepped up to make it happen a couple years ago yet, though. — Rhododendrites talk |  17:30, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit suggestion for POTY finalists template This file was awarded first place in Picture of the Year This file was awarded second place in Picture of the Year This file was awarded third place in Picture of the Year This file was a finalist in Picture of the Year[edit]

Hi! Since it's already the case for Featured pictures, Valued images, Quality Images, Wiki Loves Earth winners and Wiki Loves Monuments winners, could we also add a top icon for Picture of the Year winners and finalists ?

There is two ways to do it.

One would be to copy paste the following code on each individual file page :

For 1st place files: This file was awarded first place in Picture of the Year
{{Top icon|imagename=POTY barnstar.svg|wikilink=Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results/All|description=This file was awarded first place in Picture of the Year 2021|imagesize=64px|sortkey=001}}

For 2nd place files: This file was awarded second place in Picture of the Year
{{Top icon|imagename=PODY 2nd barnstar.svg|wikilink=Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results/All|description=This file was awarded second place in Picture of the Year 2021|imagesize=64px|sortkey=002}}

For 3rd place files: This file was awarded third place in Picture of the Year
{{Top icon|imagename=PODY 3rd barnstar.svg|wikilink=Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results/All|description=This file was awarded third place in Picture of the Year 2021|imagesize=64px|sortkey=003}}

For finalist files: This file was a finalist in Picture of the Year
{{Top icon|imagename=PODY ribbon.svg|wikilink=Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results/All|description=This file was a finalist in Picture of the Year 2021|imagesize=64px|sortkey=004}}

I have tested it and it works perfectly.

Another way is to edit this template and to edit the top code of the page to something that looks like this. For the template code I’m not 100% sure because I have no admin access to the page so I can’t test it. I'm also not sure if {{{POTYyear}}} is the right way to display the year it won.

I hope this can get implemented and I wish you all a nice day.

-- Giles Laurent (talk) 12:46, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if this was the right page to post this suggestion and I just found out that it should maybe have been posted on this page instead so I just posted it there now. -- Giles Laurent (talk) 17:25, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I like this idea, Giles Laurent, but I'd actually post it to COM:VP instead. Neither this page nor the template talk page have many pagewatchers. — Rhododendrites talk |  18:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the suggestion! Just posted it there -- Giles Laurent (talk) 19:26, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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