User talk:Hipnotic88
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Tip: Categorizing images
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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) 10:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Wrist curl flexion to strengthen UCL.JPG was uncategorized on 29 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- Image:Wrist curls.jpg was uncategorized on 29 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Please use the correct date format
[edit]Hi Hipnotic88,
Thank you for your contributions to Commons. I noticed you mentioned a date on File:Location of UCL injury.jpg. Please know that in order for dates to be automatically detected and translated into other languages it needs to be in the YYYY-MM-DD
format (ie. 2024-01 for January 2024 or 2024-11-09 for 9 November 2024). Also, for other (less specific) dates use {{Other date}} for centuries, ranges, 'circa' etc. like this: {{other date|between|1899|1903}}
for "between 1899 and 1903
". This way the dates will be translated internally into the user's language preference. I've fixed it for you here. See for example the result in English: here. Thanks again. –Krinkletalk 11:10, 27 November 2010 (UTC)