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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) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:One of the many waterfalls in Hogenakkal 2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Boating area in Cauvery river.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Bathing in Hogenakkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Water flowing rapidly in Hogenakkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Cauvery river flowing.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:One more view of Cauvery river.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:One of the many waterfalls in Hogenakkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Boat riding in Hoganekkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Another view of a waterfall in Hogenakkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Water above the Hogenakkal falls.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:A view from above one of several waterfalls in Hogenakkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Another view of a waterfall in Hogenakkal 2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Cauvery river water flowing amidst rocky hills.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Cauvery River, above Hogenakkal Falls..jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Hogenakkal five falls.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Cauvery water flowing.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:A view from the watch tower of Hogenakkal.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Rocks in Cauvery river.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Cauvery river water flowing amidst rocky hills 2.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- Image:Boats in Cauvery river.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2011 (UTC)