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Tip: Categorizing images edit

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Hello, Edukeralam!
 
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) 10:51, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Reply


Categories edit

Hi Edukeralam, please use useful categories. For images of unidentified plants like this there is category:unidentified plants. Note that category:flower doesn't exist and that category:flowers is hardly useful. Keep in mind that there is a project scope and that uploaded images must be useful for an educational purpose - what is hardly the case in unidentified plants and "flowers". -- Ies (talk) 19:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)Reply


Your uploads referring to India : Categorisation edit

Hi, as reported before, please use useful categories and don't over-categorize your images, i.e. please do not categorize your uploads (an example of your recent activity):

Category:Cherai, Cheria Beach, Beaches in Kerala, Fishing, Fishing Boat OR
Category:Cherai Beach etc.etc.

You'll help to save time and capacity on commons by categorizing:

Category:Cherai beach (and for example Category:Boats in Kerala)

Please use as far as possible the category of the regarding city/town/village or district (if there's no category) etc., or, a localized better 'fitting' i.e. the 'most fitting"' category(ies). Do not add - in addition - the categories of the "parent category", among them cities, states and countries etc.

For further information on categories please read Commons:Categories referring to an accurate categorisation, simplifying your further uploads and categorisation in general. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the commons:help desk.

Thank you for your assistance, Roland 19:33, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi, as mentioned before, there's no need (= "over-categorized") to also add "Beaches of Kerala", thanks, Roland 19:44, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, ref your mass-upload related to "Sankhumukham Beach", once more, please read urgently Commons:Categories referring to an accurate categorisation, thanks, Roland

File:DeerPark-ooty-board.jpg edit

 
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Kiran Gopi (Talk to me..) 05:21, 13 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Malayalam Chillu Characters edit

Old non-standard Malayalam Chillu characters are not supported by many mainstream softwares including Google Chrome, Safari and Various other applications (mostly build around webkit). Converting standard (5.1) forms to old de-facto standard will produce erroneous display on them. If your system suffering problems displaying new chillus, install new fonts or use workarounds. --Praveen:talk 14:22, 5 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

categories and {categorise} edit

Hi, thank you for using >meaningful categories< and respecting {categorise}, i.e. please avoid to use 'main caregories respectively avoid 'over-categorizing', p.e.

Category:Napier Museum instead of Category:Thiruvananthapuram + Category:Museum in India + Category:Museums

Thx and regards, Roland zh 18:56, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Venus-Moon-Jupiter-from-Sankhumukham-Beach4.JPG edit

 
File:Venus-Moon-Jupiter-from-Sankhumukham-Beach4.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Stas (talk) 02:20, 6 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

File:Moon Ring Seen from angamaly, kerala -2.JPG edit

 
File:Moon Ring Seen from angamaly, kerala -2.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Stas (talk) 02:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

File:Moon Ring Seen from angamaly, kerala -1.JPG edit

 
File:Moon Ring Seen from angamaly, kerala -1.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Stas (talk) 02:25, 6 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

File:Kumaranasan.svg edit

 
File:Kumaranasan.svg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

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Ww2censor (talk) 09:33, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Share your experience and feedback as a Wikimedian in this global survey edit

  1. This survey is primarily meant to get feedback on the Wikimedia Foundation's current work, not long-term strategy.
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Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey edit

(Sorry to write in Engilsh)

Wiki Science Competition 2017 closes on December, the 15th edit

 
Hi, "Wiki Science Competition" 2017 has started

It is a world event.
The upload phase in Asian, American and European countries without juries ends on December 15th. In Africa two weeks later.
Here you can find more details.

This is a manually inserted message for commons users who are also globally active or who have uploaded images related to the competition's themes (science buildings, microscopic images, scientists, wildlife...).

  #WSC2017 #WikiScience #WikiScience2017

  Wiki Science Competition

you can put the tag on a previously uploaded file if it is after November, the 1st.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

File:Old-Indian-coins.JPG edit

 
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Stombari3 (talk) 20:11, 13 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Community Insights Survey edit

RMaung (WMF) 01:00, 10 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Community Insights Survey edit

RMaung (WMF) 15:19, 20 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Community Insights Survey edit

RMaung (WMF) 19:57, 3 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

 
File:Mating of Amata Species (unknown) from Thiruvananthapuram Kerala 03.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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GeXeS (talk) 19:09, 23 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

File:A Collection of Old Indian Coins.jpg edit

 
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GeXeS (talk) 19:13, 23 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

File:Kanayi Kunhiraman at Thiruvananthapuram 02.jpg edit

 
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GFJ (talk) 20:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

File:Kanayi Kunhiraman at Thiruvananthapuram 01.jpg edit

 
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GFJ (talk) 20:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

File:MeenuliyanPara.jpg edit

 
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Sreejith K (talk) 04:19, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply