User talk:ClickRick
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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 05:46, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Image:290270 01abc1d5-by-John-Poyser.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:207978 87f071da-by-Stephen-G-Taylor.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:150268 c9c34d00-by-Mike-Fowkes.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:291425 3e8e7e88-by-Lynne-Glazzard.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:123217 3bd058a1-by-Andrew-Loughran.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:298276 7c910e72-by-John-Poyser.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:232582 d9e6e804-by-Stephen-McKay.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:193850 bcf02a0a-by-Michael-Patterson.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:074016 eaa7e176-by-Roger-May.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:400787 73b8e50b-by-John-Fielding.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Image:473774 fc7e18bd-by-Alan-Heardman.jpg is uncategorized since 3 August 2009.
- Hang on a minute! I uploaded new, larger versions of images which were already on here but only at thumbnail size, and in so doing am able to remove the "Small images" category, and now I get a reprimand for my efforts? ClickRick (talk) 07:04, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
[edit]
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.CategorizationBot (talk) 11:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
- Image:157670 0f93f05d-by-Chris-Allen.jpg was uncategorized on 8 August 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)