User talk:Mholanzi
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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.CategorizationBot (talk) 10:38, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Marafa Depression 2011.JPG was uncategorized on 27 January 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:38, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Lake Bogoria 2011.jpg was uncategorized on 2 May 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:38, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!Dear Mholanzi, Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 350,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from 36 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Kind regards, |
- Message delivered by the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 notification system on 20:20, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Kenya is open!
[edit]Hello! We are happy to announce that Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Kenya is now open. Your participation will help us to document the nature of Kenya and show it to the world through Wikipedia and other projects.
Please go to the page of the contest to read the rules: Commons:Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Kenya. There you can also find out how to take part in the contest. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us: wikimediakegmail.com
Thanks,
the organising committee of Wiki Loves Earth 2020 in Kenya - 09:19, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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