Orik
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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.BotMultichillT (talk) 06:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Prag 11.6.42.jpg is uncategorized since 10 January 2009. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Braunbuch 1933.jpg was uncategorized on 24 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:49, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Meina Denkmal 1.jpg was uncategorized on 19 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:33, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Reventlow Grab - Locarno.jpg was uncategorized on 2 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:43, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the hints. I added categories today--Orik (talk) 21:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
After studying the hints for categorization I must say: categorization is a science, which i do not want to learn. It is a service that I upload images to commons unstead of uploading it to my german wiki. Another person should to this Cat. --84.156.84.235 12:47, 20 December 2011 (UTC)