User talk:Vxla

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Vxla!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Vxla!

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) 12:01, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

• Image:Union-pacific-passenger-terminal-salt-lake-city-utah-usa.jpg was uncategorized on 5 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:01, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot

Why did you remove File:Union-pacific-passenger-terminal-salt-lake-city-utah-usa.jpg from Category:Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot? Since Commons has two photos of the same place, it makes sense to combine them in a common category, instead of duplicating all the categories on each, for example. Ntsimp (talk) 22:44, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Oh sorry...go ahead and put it back. --Vxla (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States

Dear Vxla,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States. The images you uploaded will help illustrate Wikipedia articles on historic sites in the United States. We are delighted to share the winning images and our top 10 finalists with you.

Click here to read our press release and view the winning submissions »

We invite you to continue uploading images to Wikimedia Commons and we hope you will return for Wiki Loves Monuments again in September 2014. For more information about Wikimedia Commons, please visit our welcome page. For more information about Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, please click here. Once again, thank you for sharing your images and participating in our contest.

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User:Mono

Organizing Team

Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey. Dear Vxla, Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 365,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

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Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey! Dear Vxla, Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey. Your answers will help us improve the organization of future photo contests! In case you haven't filled in the questionnaire yet, you can still do so during the next 7 days. And by the way: the winning pictures of this year's international contest have been announced. Enjoy! Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team