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[[File%3AThe_Globe_kittens_(HS85-10-13446-3).jpg|thumb|200px|right| The Globe Kittens]]
[[File:Pair_of_Merops_apiaster_feeding.jpg|thumb|200px|right| Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2012: “Pair of Merops apiaster feeding”, by Pierre Dalous (User:Kookaburra 81)]]


''This post was written by Andrew Gray, Wikimedian in Residence at the British Library and was [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/02/editing-canada-help-team-americas-and-wikimedia-with-a-new-digital-collection.html originally published here]''
''This is a guest post by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mono User:Mono] and was [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/22/winner-2012-picture-of-the-year/ originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation blog here]''


As the Picturing Canada digitisation project reaches critical mass the Library’s Wikipedian in Residence needs your help – and has photos of Canada’s cats to share.
3990 votes were cast by Wikimedians to determine the seventh Picture of the Year in this yearly [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/18/wikimedia-commons-picture-of-the-year-voting-now-open/ competition on Wikimedia Commons]. A total of 988 pictures promoted to featured picture status in the previous year were included in the competition. The organizing committee is pleased to announce the results, and would like to congratulate our winners.


In 1895, an amendment to Canadian law allowed the British Museum to receive one copy of all Canadian intellectual property deposted for copyright registration. This situation persisted until 1924, when – as part of a general reworking of Canadian copyright law – the right of receipt was removed.
The complete results are visible on the POTY 2012 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2012 results page]. The competition consisted of two voting rounds—the top images from Round 1 continued to Round 2, which ended on February 14th.


During these thirty years, the Department of Agriculture – who administered copyright – regularly parcelled up half their deposits and sent them to London. As well as books, maps and sheet music, the collection included a copy of every photograph copyrighted in Canada in this period. These are now held by the British Library and, despite some of the works being lost in their original transit (thanks to the sinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland Empress of Ireland]) or added to other collections (such as the [http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3130452&partid=1&output=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F1279%2F!%2F%2F!%2FRepresentation+of+Canadian+Inuit%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database%2Fadvanced_search.aspx&currentPage=3&numpages=10 Geraldine Moodie photographs] held by the British Museum), they represent a significant collection of early twentieth-century Canadian photography.
The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest is an annual volunteer-led contest, running since 2006. This year, about 4,000 Wikimedians voted in the competition, a record turnout that shattered projected targets.


The interesting – and unusual – aspect of this collection is that it’s entirely unselective. Anyone who submitted two copies of their picture, the correct form, and the right amount of money would have it copyrighted; it would be entered into the collections without any regard for its artistic merits. As a result, the collection includes some entirely unexpected material:
The support of the Wikimedia community made this incredible contest possible, and the organizers would like to thank everyone who participated.
We don’t yet know anything about the “Globe Kittens” (1902, right), but it seems a reasonable bet that not many serious photographic curators would have bought and preserved prints of them! As well as what you might expect – portraits, buildings, scenic pictures of mountains – there are hundreds more images like this – unexpected, provoking, and quite possibly completely forgotten. So far, working through the catalogue data and the early scans, we’ve found cute animals, urban-regeneration proposals, salacious stereograms, and at least two attempts to copyright a movie. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/the-british-library-picturing-canada-and-photos-of-cats/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
 
Wikimedia Commons is a media repository hosting content that anyone can freely share, reuse, and remix. Wikimedia Commons editors nominate the best media for featured status in an ongoing project, and all featured pictures from the previous year are included in the annual Picture of the Year contest. <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/winner-of-the-2012-picture-of-the-year-contest/ <nowiki>[</nowiki>...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>


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