User talk:YukonExpatriate
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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) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Old Growth White Spruce in Whitehorse.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:West Hastings and Abbott Intersection, Vancouver, BC, Canada.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:White Pass and Yukon Route at Ptarmigan Point.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Alouette Lake Seen from Golden Ears Provincial Park.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Mastocarpus papillatus from Vancouver.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:West Bamfield.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Doctor Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:UBC Botanical Gardens.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Vancouver 2010 Olympic Cauldron.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Juvenile Glaucous-Winged Gull from Vancouver.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Stretch of White Pass and Yukon Route Railway near a Pond.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Marina at Horseshoe Bay.jpg was uncategorized on 29 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2011 (UTC)