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Tip: Categorizing images edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

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Hello, Sklmsta~commonswiki!

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) 10:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Image:Big cat exhibit.jpg was uncategorized on 29 March 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Skeletons edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Hi Sklmsta, images of animal skeletons belong into Category:Animal skeletons or one of its subcategories. For instance this bird skeleton is best categorized into Category:Bird skeletons. Greetings, -- Ies (talk) 15:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

I meanwhile made a category for the animal skeletons of The Museum of Osteology: Category:The Museum of Osteology. Please use this for appropriate photos from now on. If ever possible add a category for the animal species. For instance for this image of the Stripes Skunk: File:Striped Skunk Skeleton.jpg I already added Category:Mephitis mephitis. Greetings, -- Ies (talk) 20:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm making a film about Cassowaries and saw your Emu skeleton. Do you have any other pictures like this of Emu or other ratite skeletons. Could you get in touch with me at: peter@windfallfilms.com if you can help me. Thanks.

File:Centaur_skeleton.jpg edit

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

File:Centaur_skeleton.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!

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Tony Wills (talk) 10:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hi, great photos :-). I would like to help retain this photograph here if possible. From the deletion discussion there are two problems, the first is to show that it is your photo, the second is to see whether William Willers will license any creative content in his creation, under a free license. So regarding the photograph, the copy on the skullsunlimited website had a modification date of 11-11-2008, the original copy you uploaded here has a modification date, a day later, of 12-11-2008. Do you have the original, from camera version, with intact EXIF data? Once we have established that, we will then have to make contact with William Willers, do you happen to know how to contact him?. Thanks, --Tony Wills (talk) 22:39, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

May I use photo of elephant bone? edit

Dear Sklmsta, I am Sandra Poon from Pearson Malaysia. May I use photo of the elephant skeleton for school books? Contact me at sandra.poon@pearson.com Thanks

Thank you so much! edit

Thank you, Sklmsta, for making your beautiful photos available. I am writing a series of educational activities for a non-profit and I'm using your Tree pangolin for a Special Adaptations lesson. Thank you again for your kindness!

Thanks for your photo! edit

Hello!

My name is Laurie and I'm the Project Manager for na2ure, an NYC-based startup toy company. We featured this photo of yours (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human-Skeleton.jpg) in our upcoming app, and wanted to thank you. Thank you!

na2ure is all about designing science play. We developed a game-changing platform called ferret that classifies ecological data into an intuitive network that can be easily learned through play. The high end value of our work attracted STEM>STEAM icon John Maeda, as well as the VCs behind LittleBits, Sphero, Makerbot, and Shapeways. The science has been vetted by MD's and PhD's, tested by kids, and praised by educators as appealing to all ages.

None of this would have been possible without your work. Thank you.

The app is available on the iOS platform and will be released to the public soon. Be sure to follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Anigramit) and Twitter (@anigramit) for a quick, easy way to share the news with your social media network -- and to keep up to date on all the great stuff we’re doing.

Again, thank you! Laurie Vazquez Project Manager, na2ure manager@na2ure.com

Your account will be renamed edit

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Sklmsta. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sklmsta~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:07, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed edit

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

05:31, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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