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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, 3s!

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) 10:36, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

• Image:Sommerfeldt borg biskop.JPG was uncategorized on 31 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 1 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:

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

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Delivered by Orbot1 (talk) at 10:42, 19 January 2013 (UTC) - you are receiving this message because you voted last year

File tagging File:Orgel inni.JPG

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And also:

• File:Spelepult.JPG

Yours sincerely, Green Giant (talk) 01:18, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I have allready been through this on e-mail with Green Giant (talk · contribs) or one of the others in the admin staff. I have sent a written permission from the photographer to the permissions-mail. In it he releases this, and one other, picture under the license that I have given them when I uploaded them here. To claim, as it was said in the mail, that his explicit permission wasn't good enough proof that he knew what he was doing when he released the picture is just nonsense.

I said in the mail correspondance that I would not bug this person with this. He has given his permission, and I see no reason what-so-ever not to acknowledge this permission as it is. 3s (talk) 08:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

OTRS permission has been attached. No further action needed. Green Giant (talk) 14:20, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Tagging copyvios

Hi, When tagging copyright violations, please inform the uploader. This is best done using the gagdet. See in your preferences. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:59, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

I was not aware of that gadget, and I need to be more aware of alerting uploaders. Thank you for informing me about the gadget and reminding me about informing uploaders. I have turned on the gadget, so hopefully I will improve. Bw 3s (talk) 12:09, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

template

Hello. Yes you are right: the inclusion of {{Delete}} in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Thomas Camprock.jpg triggered this mess. {{Delete}} should only be included in the page of the file you want to delete, not in the deletion request page. Best regards, BrightRaven (talk) 10:44, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll try to remember it. I'm not doing things like this too often on Commons, so I easily go wrong, but I try to learn from my mistakes. 3s (talk) 10:47, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

No problem. By the way, I have deleted the file you pointed to, because it met the criteria for a speedy deletion. Best regards, BrightRaven (talk) 10:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

File:Hilde Opoku.jpg

File:Hilde Opoku.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. 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. 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!

Kjetil_r 14:05, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

St.Gallen_Abbey

Dear 3s, I am a Prof. in Architecture and I am currently redacting a book titled “History of Interior Design and Furniture” and it will be published in Turkish edition. I would like to use your image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Saint_Gall#/media/File:St.Gallen_Abbey.JPG. At the end of the book, the name of the beholder of the image is noted in ‘Picture Credits.’ Do you prefer us to use your nick name in Wikipedia or we can note your proper name if you prefer. Best regards, Mustafa Demirkan mustafaemindemirkan@gmail.com hippofish 11:55, 18 May 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serhatakbak (talk • contribs) 11:55, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2018 is open!

Dear 3s,

You are receiving this message because we noticed that you voted in R1 of the 2018 Picture of the Year contest, but not yet in the second round. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2018) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked.

In the final (and current) round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2018.

Round 2 will end 17 March 2019, 23:59:59.

Click here to vote now!

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee 18:03, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

File:Inga, Arild P. (Foto Kenneth Hætta) (23875490718).jpg

File:Inga, Arild P. (Foto Kenneth Hætta) (23875490718).jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added may soon be deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please replace the copyvio tag with {{subst:OP}} and have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you disagree that the file is a copyright violation for any other reason, please replace the copyvio tag with a regular deletion request. This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Image apparrently taken from online at https://www.sametinget.no/Politikk/Sametingsrepresentantene?page=2 Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

GMG^talk 12:28, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

This file is licensed cc-by-2.0, and can be transfered to Commons. See also the bot-review copied here. 3s (talk) 12:32, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

This image was originally posted to Flickr by Sámediggi - Sametinget at https://flickr.com/photos/105581391@N02/23875490718. It was reviewed on 18 March 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

18 March 2019

Fair enough. Sorry about that. Apparently I've not had enough coffee this morning. GMG^talk 12:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: No problem. :) Here you go!