User talk:Francis McLloyd
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--Eusebius (talk) 08:34, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images[edit]
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 06:10, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Polen Galizien Wolhynien.png was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
- Image:NUTS NL Niveau2.jpg was uncategorized on 24 January 2012 CategorizationBot (talk) 14:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Had to convert text to paths (as with all the other versions). Here's the simple 3k file as it was before I converted to paths: AnonMoos (talk) 11:05, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" width="520" height="468" viewBox="0 0 520 468"> <metadata><rdf:RDF><cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> <dc:title>Shield of the Trinity or Scutum Fidei diagram of Christian Trinitarian symbolism (basic German version)</dc:title> </cc:Work></rdf:RDF></metadata> <title>Shield of the Trinity or Scutum Fidei diagram of Christian Trinitarian symbolism (basic German version)</title> <g transform="translate(0,468) scale(1,-1)" stroke-width="2.9" stroke="#000000" fill="#ffffff"> <path d="M22.8008,391.287 L232.294,270.144 V28.5845 H287.545 V270.144 L497.026,391.287 L469.401,439.137 L259.92,317.994 L49.801,439.137Z" /> <path d="M76.8035,392.012 H443.036 L259.92,74.9841Z M15.9036,386.606 L225.12,24.2341 H294.72 L503.936,386.606 L469.136,446.88 H50.7036Z" /> <circle cx="259.92" cy="286.094" r="63.799"/> <circle cx="74.8896" cy="392.012" r="63.799"/> <circle cx="444.95" cy="392.012" r="63.799"/> <circle cx="259.92" cy="74.9841" r="63.799"/> </g> <text style="font-size:36px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia"><tspan x="44.461197" y="64.944908">Der</tspan><tspan x="30.461197" y="104.94491" id="tspan3297">Vater</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:36px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia"><tspan x="415.78183" y="65.440681">Der</tspan><tspan x="404.78183" y="105.44068" id="tspan3319">Sohn</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia"><tspan x="202" y="58">ist nicht</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:53px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia"><tspan x="207" y="200">Gott</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia" transform="rotate(60)"><tspan x="232" y="11">ist nicht</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia" transform="rotate(-60)"><tspan x="-82" y="460">ist nicht</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia"><tspan x="233.4" y="364">Der</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:33px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia"><tspan x="209" y="399">Heilige</tspan><tspan x="220" y="435">Geist</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia" transform="rotate(30)"><tspan x="190" y="38">ist</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia" transform="rotate(-30)"><tspan id="tspan3468" x="222" y="297.5">ist</tspan></text> <text style="font-size:32px;fill:#000000;stroke:none;font-family:Georgia" transform="rotate(90)"><tspan x="271" y="-249">ist</tspan></text> </svg>
I hand-edited the SVG file to cut it down from 11k to 3k in size, and reposition and resize some of the text captions, resulting in the file listed above. However, this file would not display correctly here, since the "Georgia" font is not installed. So I then converted text to paths, which re-expanded the file from 3k to 39k... AnonMoos (talk) 13:38, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
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Achim (talk) 10:17, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Drut-Aslik-Vabich-Greza Друць-Аслік-Вабіч-Грэза.png[edit]
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Didym (talk) 23:33, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
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Jcb (talk) 18:40, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Nemunas Vente Lielupe Daugava Gauja River Becken.jpg[edit]
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