User talk:Martinpie

Welcome!

Hello, Martinpie, and welcome to Wikimedia Commons. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• First steps - will tell you everything you need to know about how to upload, what licenses are OK and what information to include in your image summary
• Babel guide - Commons is truly international, here's how to handle some multilingual issues
• Commons FAQ - has some answers to common Commons questions
• The Community Portal - help us organise and improve our files
• A Gallery of your images - please correct any that are untagged or orphans (put them in a category)

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Martinpie!

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.

--Tomia 20:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)