User talk:Redwidgeon

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Redwidgeon!

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Categorizing images

Hello, Redwidgeon! I took the liberty of creating a category for your Wikiversity pictures at Curriculum planning figures. Please add any others you create for the project. You might also give some thought to additional categories for images that could find use elsewhere, even something as seemingly banal as Circles. For example I also put the user-experience image from Flickr in Cartoons about education. Happy editing!—Odysseus1479 (talk) 08:41, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help, Odysseus1479! It is much appreciated & I will follow your lead for this in the future. Redwidgeon (talk) 16:40, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

No problem. The category tree is vast, as you can imagine, and not always consistent (to say the least), but the goal is to categorize each file as specifically as possible. There’s a very helpful Gadget called HotCat, which you can activate in your Preferences, that lets you add them directly at the bottom of any page without going to an Edit screen. The latter provides auto-suggestions in the form of a pop-up menu of categories, so you often have to type only part of the name; a check-mark or X beside the entry field indicates whether or not there’s an existing category. Even if I have little idea how a particular subject is organized, guessing a keyword or two can often turn up something relevant with little effort. (Note that categories are hierarchical, unlike keywords: e.g. a file under Computer science flowcharts should not usually be in Diagrams or Computer programming because the first is indirectly contained in both of the latter.)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:21, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

2022 Picture of the Year: Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran.

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2022 voting is open!

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