AmSteam

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, AmSteam!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, AmSteam!

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, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Ben Varon in Tammela 2009.jpg was uncategorized on 25 April 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Ben Varon in Tammela April 2009.jpg was uncategorized on 25 April 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Authorship

It is more than a bit obvious that you are not the author of your uploads when you add the names of the real authors in the description, especially as you have been taking the pictures of more than one author. But their names made it easier to figure out where you have been taking the pictures from. So either you proove that you have their permission to upload the pics with those licences (send those permissions to COM:OTRS) or we will have to block your account because of copyright violations. In the meantime those pictures will be deleted. As soon as the OTRS-team has gotten the permission of the real authors they (the OTRS-team) will restore the images. Do not upload them yourself again! -- Cecil (talk) 00:11, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

By the way: even if you have the permission from them to upload the images, the rest of your behaviour is not ok. Selecting a licence with requires attribution and then requesting from any re-users that they attribute you and not the real authors is quite rotten and I can't belief that they gave their permission to that. -- Cecil (talk) 00:14, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi, The pics are by AmSteam, which is a group including the named authors. What shall we do to get pics back? What kind of permission is needed..each by their e-mail or digital signature ?? OBR AmSteam

Hi, I'm not a 100% sure how OTRS-team is doing the identification. It probably should be something that can be done in one mail because with three mails you would probably open up three different tickets for the same user-account which can lead to disarray. So an option would be a mail which has attached permission-mails by all the authors.

I would recommend to contact Samulili (Mail). The user speaks Finnish, works at OTRS (so he knows what is needed, how to do it best and could also handle your ticket) and is an admin here (so he can restore the images after successful identification).

Just one thing: if you have the name of the real author in the description of the image, it will most likely get lost when being re-used outside of Wikimedia. Re-Users take the author-field as the name they attribute an image too. They most likely make their own image description and so the photographers name will be gone and only AmSteam will be attributed. You can write in the author-field however you want to be attributed. It does not need to be the uploaders name. That's only what is set in the upload-form as a default. You could also write just the name of the photographer in this field, or both the photographer name and the uploader name, or ... -- Cecil (talk) 21:17, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No answer from Samilili.. so we did send as forward 3 separate e-mails written by the photographers to info-en-c wikimedia.org. .. let´see??

AmSteam (talk) 20:34, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Seams it worked. The pictures were just restored. Great. -- Cecil (talk) 17:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes it did, thank you!! Had to send the mails 2 times to get them specific enough. They needed all to have the same subject "Ticket XXX" that they were handled as one(or sthng like that;))AmSteam (talk) 12:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)