User talk:Saepe Fidelis~commonswiki

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Saepe Fidelis!

First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki—it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (direct access). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], which produces: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|correct name}} For more information read the full deletion guidelines.
(P.S. Would you like to provide feedback on this message?)

How to Edit Maps

Hello, ljanderson997. I noticed that you edited File:International reaction to the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict.png. I've been trying to figure out how to edit maps like that. What do I do?

Thanks, Saepe Fidelis (talk) 23:34, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

This is how you edit on Microsoft/ Windows not Apple/ Macs. View the map on its large resolution instead of it been minimised. Then copy and paste it on to Microsoft Paint (or other program, but I believe paint ot be easiest/ paint). Then use the paint bucket to fill in the country in the appropriate colour. Then save the map/ file as the exact same name it is saved on wikicommons, for example save File:International reaction to the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict.png as "International reaction to the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict.png" (without "File:", also make surer you have the correct case, so lower and higher are not mixed up). Also when you save the file, save it as a PNG file as opposed to a JPEG ect. Then go back to the image on wikicommons, then go to the bottom of the page and it will say "Upload a new version of this file", click that and follow the on screen instructions. This should work. That is how you edit PNG files, other files such as SVG you edit differently, you need special software such as inkscape, however that another ballgame, I'm not good at editing them. PNG are the easiest, to edit/ create. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask. It seems confusing but its much easier than it first seems. Regards Ijanderson977 (talk) 15:59, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Ijanderson. I think I did it right. I may have forgotten something. Please let me know if I did. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 00:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

You seem to have done it correctly. Just remember you will only be able to edit certain files with Microsoft Paint. Regards Ijanderson977 (talk) 11:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

---

Hello, Saepe Fidelis~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.

BotMultichillT 06:15, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

• Image:International reaction to the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict Draft B.png is uncategorized since 31 January 2009. BotMultichillT 06:15, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
• Image:International reaction to the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict Draft A.png is uncategorized since 31 January 2009. BotMultichillT 06:15, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

New Version

There is a 2010 version of the map available here. I don't really know how to convert PDF to JPG or mess with commons images very well, so if someone else could upload it, that would be awesome. Saepe Fidelis (talk) 19:06, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Please see: See: Commons:PDF to image files. --Timeshifter (talk) 10:25, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

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 Saepe Fidelis. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Saepe Fidelis~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

22:53, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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)

05:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)