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Tip: Categorizing images edit

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Hello, CX257!

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.

BotMultichillT (talk) 05:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Image:IFC HKG.jpg is uncategorized since 12 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:CO LKS.jpg is uncategorized since 13 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:GGRoom LKS.jpg is uncategorized since 13 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:KFRoad Rain.jpg is uncategorized since 13 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Longhair protest.jpg is uncategorized since 13 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 05:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Image:Shatin Wai Station.jpg was uncategorized on 22 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:14, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Image:Cityflyer route map.png was uncategorized on 22 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:14, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Image:NWFB Hennessy Road.jpg was uncategorized on 22 November 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:14, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Image:Map-of-Tsim-Sha-Tsui.png was uncategorized on 28 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:01, 29 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey.

Dear CX257,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time.

Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 365,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place.

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Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey!

Dear CX257,

Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey. Your answers will help us improve the organization of future photo contests!

In case you haven't filled in the questionnaire yet, you can still do so during the next 7 days.

And by the way: the winning pictures of this year's international contest have been announced. Enjoy!

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the Wiki Loves Monuments team

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