Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Timeline

  Picture of the Year 2012

   The Seventh Annual Wikimedia Commons POTY Contest

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Introduction & dates
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Round 1:

Galleries

Round 2

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Finalists

 · Results

Organising committee

Rules · Translations · Discussion

A chronological „Who does what at which time“. If you contributed to POTY or intend to (except translations, donating images and minor fixes), feel free to add what you did/will do here. This page should, one day, sufficiently answer the question „What does the POTY committee?“

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Date	Event	Notes
2012-01-01 00:00	All featured pictures from 2012 will be candidates in POTY 2012. Not sure about file sets.
2012-11-01 00:00	Beria created the galleries and categorized the files. Mono created Commons:Picture of the Year/2012. Doodle survey when to meet in IRC.
2012-12-28 16:00	Meeting at wikimedia-commons-poty
2012-12-28 18:30	Call for translations at MediaWiki:Sitenotice
2013-01-01 00:00	Updating galleries adding 2012-12 FPs	Beria did this.
2013-01-01 00:00	Checking galleries	Everyone is invited helping with this task. Are all FPs listed? Are wrong candidates listed? Are they in the correct category?
2013-01-15 03:55	Creating voting pages and afterwards enabling abuse filters: 96, 77. Protecting all vote pages using the title blacklist	User:Rillke did this.
2013-01-16 00:00	Protecting all galleries using the title blacklist at Wikimedia Commons.	User:Rillke did this.
2013-01-16 00:00	Start round 1 of POTY 2012. Testing period.	Done: Remove blacklist protection of voting pages.  Done: Keep the gallery protection.  Done: Change {{POTY2012/state}} to duringR1 and {{POTY2012/date}} to 2013-01-30T23:59:59Z. Only local banners at Commons inviting to vote. Please don't announce this broadly: No banners, no forum threads, no watchlist notes.
2013-01-19 00:00	Round 1 of POTY 2012.	Done CentralNotice (3+3d) for eligible users (check edit count and registration date from wgNoticeUserData). Already done on meta.  Done Sending localized messages to local Village Pumps using JS/CORS.  Done en.wp.Signpost & Twitter & Wikimedia blog will be notified by User:Mono  Done Bot will notify last year's voters of contest rounds will be done by User:Odisha1
2013-01-30 23:59	End round 1 of POTY 2012	Set {{POTY2012/state}} to afterR1. Unprotecting galleries. Protecting all vote pages using the title blacklist. WHO'll do this?
2013-02-01 00:00	Counting R1 votes	User:Kalan's tool will presumably do this.
2013-02-02 00:00	Creating galleries for the finalists of POTY 2012
2013-02-07 00:00	Start round 2 „The final“ of POTY 2012
2013-02-14 23:59	End round 2 of POTY 2012
2013-02-15 00:00	Determination of the winner