User talk:Ginge1420

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Tip: Categorizing images[edit]

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Hello, Ginge1420!

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) 10:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Kookaburras, Laughing & Snake5.JPG was uncategorized on 17 September 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Over-categorization[edit]

Hi Ginge, please don't over-categorize your images. For instance in your File:AppleGreen.JPG

Category:Apples is ok
Category:Fruit is over-categorized since Category:Apples is already categorized with Category:Fruit.

For further information please read Commons:Categories and particularly paragraph Over-categorization. -- Ies (talk) 14:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ginge, don't you understand the meaning of over-categorizing? I wonder why you over-categorize again here. Btw, File:Sultanas2.JPG might better be categorized as raisins. -- Ies (talk) 15:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Les I uploaded a number of images at the same time so had not received your earlier message. BTW we call them sultanas here in Australia rather than raisins, hence the reason I called them sultanas. I did not even know they were the same thing until I read the article.

Hey[edit]

Good job thanks for uploading pics of Awoonga dam keep up the good work yo!! :-D Ezykron (talk) 04:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:PsychedelicArt_-_Skewed_Life.jpg[edit]

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Martin H. (talk) 19:38, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Photographer's Barnstar

Bonjour,

i' m writing a book (160 pages, 300 pictures) in France about hemp agriculture…(alimentation, paper, textile, ropes, bio-dièsel, construction, isolation, médecine, religion, etc...) Is it possible to illustrate it with the picture of the génious lamp, i've found it on the page : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genie_Lamps_007.JPG

But can i have your authorisation to use it…

Thank you for your help… Jah-ova (talk) 20:53, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that will be fine - go right ahead.

I use some of your photos[edit]

Hello Vicki Nunn!

I have use a photo of Physignathus lesueurii and other of Aquila audaxfrom wikimedia in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia)

You can see directly in the follow links and click over "Siguiente" ("Next"):

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=29897

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=37536

If you wish, you can send me (via fernando.lison@educa.madrid.org) some letters or/and a photo for your "contributor profile" in Animalandia:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Vicki+Nunn

I want show to my students (and so everybody) that Animalandia is make for "real person", and I can tell them about "generosity", "share" and other similar words that we use very few at this time...

This is my "contributor profile" and others, for example:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Fernando%20Lis%F3n%20Mart%EDn

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Carmen%20Jim%E9nez

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=David%20P%E9rez

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Boris%20Loboda

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Steve%20Garvie%20%28Rainbirder%29

In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!! Regards! Fernando Lisón

--Fernando.lison (talk) 04:20, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]