Welcome to the Commons, Agathoclea!
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Yann 01:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Tip: Categorizing images edit

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Hello, Agathoclea!
 
Tip: Add categories to your files

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) 10:37, 16 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open edit

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

  1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
  2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
  3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee


Delivered by Orbot1 (talk) at 08:33, 19 January 2013 (UTC) - you are receiving this message because you voted last yearReply

Baudenkmäler edit

Es sollen nur die Kategorien die Nummern und Ortsangaben erhalten, nicht jedes Bild. So ist das vergebliche Mühe. Gruß --Jkü (talk) 21:07, 18 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wo kommt dieser wilde Gedanke her? Bilder waren immer kompletter dokumentiert als die Kategorien. Das es Teile von Bayern gibt, die sehr dürftig dokumentiert sind, liegt mehr an dem dortigen Uploader als an einer solchen Policy. Agathoclea (talk) 07:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

AWB edit

Moin moin! AWB sollte jetzt fuer Dich funktionieren. Frohes Neues und frohes werkeln!   --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 16:48, 4 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Autopatrol given edit

 

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you.

Welcome, Dear Filemover! edit

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Hi Agathoclea, you're now a filemover. When moving files please respect the following advice:

  • Use the CommonsDelinker link in the {{Rename}} template to order a bot to replace all ocurrences of the old title with the new one. Or, if there was no rename-request, please use the Move & Replace-tab.
  • Please leave a redirect behind unless you have a valid reason not to do so. Other projects, including those using InstantCommons, might be using the file even though they don't show up in the global usage. Deleting the redirects would break their file references. Please see this section of the file rename guideline for more information.
  • Please know and follow the file rename guidelines.


Thanks for all your work! Cheers!   --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 13:25, 6 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, that will make things a little easier. Just means, that I will need to learn a new set of tools. Agathoclea (talk) 13:31, 6 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
Na, nothing too difficult. Enjoy! --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 14:07, 6 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Post-RfC on music notation files edit

Hi. If you're interested, the discussion regarding music notation files on Commons has moved to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208494, as the RfC was archived without a formal closure. Feel free to comment (if you've never used Phabricator before, you can log in with a MediaWiki account). Jc86035 (talk) 17:02, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Important message for file movers edit

 

A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

Possible acceptable uses of this ability:

  • To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
  • To perform file name swaps.
  • When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)

Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.

The malicious or reckless breaking of file links via the suppressredirect user right is considered an abuse of the file mover right and is grounds for immediate revocation of that right. This message serves as both a notice that you have this right and as an official warning. Questions regarding this right should be directed to administrators. --Majora (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

FP Promotion edit

 
This image has been promoted to Featured picture!

The image File:Pseudocalotes floweri, Flower’s long-headed lizard - Khao Khitchakut National Park (47144396302) by Rushen.jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Pseudocalotes floweri, Flower’s long-headed lizard - Khao Khitchakut National Park (47144396302) by Rushen.jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

 

/FPCBot (talk) 21:01, 7 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

FP Promotion edit

 
This image has been promoted to Featured picture!

The image File:Trimeresurus sabahi fucatus, Banded pit viper - Takua Pa District, Phang-nga Province (46710893582).jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Trimeresurus sabahi fucatus, Banded pit viper - Takua Pa District, Phang-nga Province (46710893582).jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

 

/FPCBot (talk) 13:04, 15 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

FP Promotion edit

 
This image has been promoted to Featured picture!

The image File:Macracantha arcuata - Curved Spiny Spider (8550192839) by Rushen.jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Macracantha arcuata - Curved Spiny Spider (8550192839) by Rushen.jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

 

/FPCBot (talk) 21:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

FP Promotion edit

 
This image has been promoted to Featured picture!

The image File:Oligodon huahin, Hua Hin kukri snake - Kaeng Krachan National Park (32625377028).jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Oligodon huahin, Hua Hin kukri snake - Kaeng Krachan National Park (32625377028).jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

 

/FPCBot (talk) 05:03, 10 September 2020 (UTC)Reply