User talk:NorwegianBlue

Welcome to the Commons, NorwegianBlue!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, NorwegianBlue!

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.

--EugeneZelenko 18:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for name resolution

Can you make an edit on one (or both) of those projects requesting usurpation while signed in and give me a link to the diff? --Brian McNeil / talk 18:43, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, done. --NorwegianBlue (talk) 21:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:PBB_GE_VIM_201426_s_at_fs.png

Hallo NorwegianBlue, why do you want the diagram to be rotated? http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:PBB_GE_VIM_201426_s_at_fs.png&action=history It is not wrong like it is currently. If you think it would be more useful to have it in another rotation please upload under a new filename. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 16:03, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry. I didn't read the page closely enough, and misunderstood, thinking the rotation was a dynamic thing. --NorwegianBlue (talk) 20:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I am helping to program this rotate script. Can you tell what the difficulties are - or how you would have understand it correctly? Here is also a help page: Help:RotateLink. Thank you! Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 23:11, 6 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, looking at the page now, it is pretty clear that clicking the link implies requesting a change to the image. The problem is, I wasn't paying attention, as my focus was on the labels on the X-axis, which I had trouble reading in that orientation. I can see now that there is a tooltip, "Request a (permanent) rotation of the rotation....". It might have helped if the wording on the link itself was changed similarly, to make it even clearer: "Request a permanent rotation of this image". A message box after clicking the link, saying something like "Note: by clicking OK, you will submit a request a for a permanent rotation of this image on the Wikimedia Commons server. [OK] [Cancel]" might help, too (Was there a message box? As I said, my attention was elsewhere...) --NorwegianBlue (talk) 21:04, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment! The problem with the link text is: we try to keep it short to not eat up too much valuable space. Just click on the link again and tell me if and which text we should add to the message box - there is one - indeed. ;) Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 23:46, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've clicked it now, and do recognize the popup box (and blush at having misunderstood it the first time. It is pretty darn obvious that I am about to request a permanent change to the image).

To avoid unintentional rotation requests from absent-minded users, I think that the popup should state clearly in the header that it is a request for a permanent change, that will affect all users. Maybe something like this will work?

     +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
     |  Request a permanent rotation of this image.                                  |
     |  Important: This operation should be used only for images that are displayed  |
     |  incorrectly. The rotation  will affect all users of the image. If you feel   |
     |  that a rotated version would be useful in addition to this image, please     |
     |  create such an image yourself, by downloading the image, rotating it with    |
     |  suitable image editing software, and uploading it under a different name.    |
     +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
     | (?) How many degrees sould the image be rotated?                              | 
     |     Please report _bugs_ and ideas.                        +--------+         |
     |                                                            |        |         |
     | By selecting an angle below,                               | Thumb- |         |
     | you see in the a preview at the                            | nail.  |         |
     | right what the image will rook like                        |        |         |
     | after rotation.                                            +--------+         |
     |                                                                               |
     | ( ) 90°                          Correct the orientation of this thumbnail    |
     | ( ) 180°                         by selecting an angle                        |
     | ( ) 270°                                                                      |
     | ( ) |_123_|°                                                                  |
     +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Thanks for your work on the bot, clearly a useful thing! --NorwegianBlue (talk) 21:42, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:NorwegianBlue

Tip: Categorizing images

Request for name resolution

File:PBB_GE_VIM_201426_s_at_fs.png

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