'''Picture of the Year 2013''' is the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons.
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Wikimedia users were invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons [[COM:FP|(FP)]] during the past year, 2013, to produce a single Picture of the Year.</translate></div><br />
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#11: Aircraft Rescue Firefighting training (U.S. Marine Corps). – Attribution: Lance Cpl. Manuel F. Guerrero, United States Marine Corps (http://www.marines.mil/) (License: PD)
The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results:
We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).
In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:
We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.