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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) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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- Image:Gasoline Rainbow.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Freeze Dried Ice Cream.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Dry Ice.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Crystal on graph paper.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Freeze-Dried Ice Cream.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Spoon Sugar Solution with Glass.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Pool with Leaves.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Bismuth In Hand.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Pumice On Plastic.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Drop On Pink.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Sugar Cubes Stacked and Burned.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Brazil Nut.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Image:Tempered Glass.jpg was uncategorized on 22 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:38, 23 January 2012 (UTC)