User talk:Arkhivov
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Tip: Categorizing images
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Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.BotMultichillT 05:39, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Pekulneyskoe Lake.JPG was uncategorized on 22 September 2009.
Acrocephalus orinus
[edit]Dear Dr Arkhipov,
I just saw your PLoS ONE note on A. orinus. Is there a chance that you can find some freely licensed images of specimens. best regards. Shyamal (talk) 08:27, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- I will try to get it --Arkhivov (talk) 13:14, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Photo usage
[edit]Hi, I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used one of your pictures.
I found your picture here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saiga_tatarica.jpg
And I attributed the picture like this: Vladimir Yu. Arkhipov, Arkhivov with this link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arkhivov and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672
Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 20:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available.
Nuthatches
[edit]Hi, it's been suggested that you might be able to help with my request here. Thanks in advance, Jimfbleak (talk) 08:07, 27 May 2014 (UTC)