Gvignesh493

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Gvignesh493!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 05:01, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Gvignesh493!

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.

--EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:40, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Please give images good descriptions

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I noticed you've uploaded File:Earthworm in Forest.jpg and I thought I should draw your attention to a common error.
Please give some thought to writing a good description of uploaded images. This ensures that they can be used. It also helps those that review and improve categories do a better job, which also ensures that images will get used in novel and interesting ways. Thanks, and happy editing!

----Animalparty (talk) 19:52, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore Postcard

Greetings! Thank you for your contribution in Wiki Loves Folklore 2020 Commons photography contest. The world is richer with your contributions today. Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, we are sharing a digital postcard as a token of appreciation. Please fill this form before 10 July 2020 to recieve your digital postcard from us.

Looking forward to welcome you next year in February 2021.

Wikilove and Gratitude

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:55, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is on!

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:04, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is on!

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:14, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in India is on!

Hello Gvignesh493,

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore India Team!

Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons, this campaign invites participants to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folktales, folk games, folk religion, mythology and many more. Let's help to protect and develop our intangible Indian culture, which consists of customs or active expressions that we have acquired from our ancestors and passed down to our offspring.

How to Contribute?

The dates for the submission in the photography contest on Wikimedia Commons are from 1 February to 31 March 2023. Probably you are wondering how you can take part. It’s simple: grab a camera, record an image, video or audio under the folklore theme, create a Wikimedia account and start uploading! To learn more about the rules, check out our Project page on Wikimedia Commons.

Below are the exciting prizes which you can win internationally an locally. (Contributors can win both International and Local Prizes as well )

International Prizes

• 1st prize: 400 USD
• 2nd prize: 200 USD
• 3rd prize: 100 USD
• Top 10 consolation prizes: 10 USD each
• Best Video prize and best Audio prize: 25 USD, 25 USD (each)
• Top uploader prize for images: First Prize 100 USD, Second prize 50 USD
• Wiki Loves Folklore Postcards to top 100 Uploader's

Local Prizes

• 1st prize - 15000 INR + WLF Goodies
• 2nd prize - 10000 INR + WLF Goodies
• 3rd prize - 5000 INR + WLF Goodies
• Consolation : Top 5 winners - 1000 INR each + WLF Goodies
• Wiki Loves Folklore Certificate for Winners

(Disclaimer : The above prizes for International and Local Contest will only be disbursed in form of gift card or voucher format only)

If you are interested in participating in the photography campaign, start photographing and collecting media of your local culture and upload them on the photo campaign happening on Wikimedia Commons.

For more information about rules and prizes of the contest, refer the project page. For any questions, reach out to us via support@wikilovesfolklore.org.

You have been sent this message because you have been a part of Wiki loves Folklore in its journey in the past 5 years, lets continue to embrace our folk culture and drive through the path towards creating the largest database collection of folk Images on the internet

Warm regards,

Gaurav Gaikwad (User:Rockpeterson)

Coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore India.