User talk:PPelberg (WMF)

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 02:47, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your uploads

Thank you for your uploads related to MediaWiki: we don't often see usability videos like File:Link context item (mobile VE).gif (although the resolution of the GIF is a bit lacking). It would be better if you used categories: even a generic one like Category:MediaWiki is better than nothing. I understand this may be hard with cross-wiki uploads, which have a rather unfriendly interface; you may want to use Special:UploadWizard instead. Nemo 08:42, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

This is timely and helpful...thank you for writing as clearly as you have, Nemo ^ _ ^

I've done – what I think – is necessary to add Category:MediaWiki (see this edit). I'll have categories in mind as I make uploads to Commons in the future. Oh, and as for the quality of that gif, I know...not ideal :/ Is there a particular .MP4 to .GIF converter you've had success with? I've been using Giphy's gifmaker. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 15:11, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. When you have time you can browse the subcategories of Category:MediaWiki to see which ones are a better fit, if any.

I don't often create GIFs but I think I managed in the past with one of imagemagick, mencoder or ffmpeg (I usually just try them all to see if they give a good result with default settings). If your source is an MP4, though, maybe it's easier to try OGV or WebM with something at Help:Converting video? Nemo 15:53, 2 August 2019 (UTC)