User talk:Texaspi

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Texaspi!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Texaspi!

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.

CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Ysleta Mission Altar May 25 1936.jpg was uncategorized on 28 March 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:56, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

More on Categories

I' afraid it's not quite as simple as the bot above makes it seem. The category tree structure is a very logical effort to make it easy to find images and to have each category just specific enough so that it has not too many and not too few images for easy use.

In the case of File:Ysleta Mission Altar May 25 1936.jpg, it belongs in Category:Ysleta Mission, which takes care of all the categories that the mission needs:

• New Mexico missions
• National Register of Historic Places in Texas
• 17th century architecture in Texas
• 17th century churches in the United States
• Hispanic Baroque churches in the United States

The only additional category an editor might put on this image would be one that applied to this image and not the other images of the mission, such as Category:Historic American Buildings Survey which I just added.

Categories such as Category:Churches are far too broad for ordinary use. The point is to find one or more categories that are as specific as possible. This is not always easy -- it sometimes takes me 15 or 20 minutes to properly categorize a new image, even in subjects where I know the trees fairly well. If you have questions -- don't hesitate to ask. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 13:31, 7 April 2010 (UTC)