A team of three professionals — videographers, graphic designers, photographers, and Wikimedians — devoted their time and expertise to judging the submitted videos this year.
- Saddam Husein (Indonesia) — professional documentary photographer/videographer focusing on environmental issues.
- Jan Ainali (Sweden) — started his Wikimedia journey on Wikimedia Commons in 2006. He has been the CEO of Wikimedia Sverige and is a co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. In previous years, he has been on the jury for the Swedish Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Monuments, as well as the international Wiki Loves Monuments. In his day job, he helps organizations become better at working in the open at Open By Default.
- Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı (Turkey) — Graphic designer, Visual Communication Design graduate, Media Contributor of the Year 2024. Since 2014, he has been contributing to Wikimedia projects. He likes to share his experience and help Wikimedians in various Wiki events in Turkey, and helps many communities and users in the Wikimedia movement, especially the Wikimedia community and student clubs in Turkey, in various areas, especially in the field of graphic design. Caner is also interested in cultures and developing them as free knowledge through various designs. In terms of photography, he likes to take and analyze macro photographs the most. He also enjoys comparing the locations of historical photographs to their current state.
We are excited to announce the results of this nomination very soon. Stay tuned!
