RodCrosby
Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump. |
|
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.CategorizationBot (talk) 11:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Frank McLardy.jpg was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Frank McLardy in 1934.jpg was uncategorized on 10 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:48, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Frank McLardy RAMC.jpg was uncategorized on 12 December 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
File:British Free Corps pamplet.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. |
File:Frank McLardy.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. |
Third Reich documents
editAcquiring physical possession of documents from the Third Reich would not give the British Government ownership of the copyrights to them (even if they published them as part of the documents surrounding the trials) and even if they did acquire the copyrights, they would not be 'Crown Copyright', since not actually created by the British Government.... they would simply be normal copyrights, with a normal term, owned by the British government. The copyrights in 'official documents' of the Third Reich belong to the current German government, unless expired, and the German government has habitually not allowed them to be reproduced. To use these, you need some argument of why they are PD that is not clearly wrong. Reventtalk 09:11, 27 August 2016 (UTC)