Pear Blossom

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File:Phang Nga Bay cave.jpg

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Prof. Professorson (talk) 21:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Pear Blossom!

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) 13:27, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

• Image:Phang Nga Bay.jpg was uncategorized on 30 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 13:27, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Cinque torri (Five Towers).jpg was uncategorized on 31 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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• Image:At the top of Monte Cristallo.jpg was uncategorized on 31 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
• Image:Lungro.jpg was uncategorized on 1 February 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:51, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

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:

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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,
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Islets in Phang Nga Bay - Confirmation of CC licence for use in a infographic.

Hi there,

My name's Ian, I work for a small infographic studio (NeoMam) in Manchester, UK. We're making an infographic about star wars travel locations and would like to use a small version of your image to illustrate one of the items on the list.

We are going to distribute the work under CC-BY-SA 3.0 so I believe it's in line with the licence under which you've released it under.

However we always like to double check these things, it would attributed in the following manner on the graphic:

Islets in Phang Nga Bay / Pear Blossom / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 3.0 / Image has been resized

If you'd like to see examples of this on the graphic, please contact me at my user page and I'll be more than happy to send examples.

Please let me know if this is OK or if you'd like it to be attributed in a different way.

Thanks, Ian

IanMartinIrving00 (talk) 17:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)