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Rd232 (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
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Renaming photograph Categories by year[edit]
Hi there. Was there any reason to rename the categories like this edit? These type of categories with this type of naming at very common here. See Category:Photographs by country by year. Is there any community decision not use it any longer? -- DerFussi 06:05, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
- @DerFussi: Yes, there is a reason. The vast majority of the files at Commons are photographs, so it's a de facto default: that means that photographs don't need to be in a "photographs" category unless there's a specific reason for it. The categories that have the word "photographs" in their names are usually reserved for a special kind of use that's described by the text in the {{Photographs}} template: I think of it as "photographs by characteristic".
- As for the specific diff you mention, that category contained subcategories like Category:2008 photographs of Cambodia (and similar categories for other years). Those categories didn't contain things that the photographs categories are used for, so I moved the contents to other categories. For example, things in Category:2008 photographs of Cambodia were moved to Category:2008 in Cambodia. (I've been doing this for multiple countries, and in most cases there were already files in the "year in country" categories that weren't apparently different from those in the "photographs" category.) In some cases, these moves were done by changing templates that assign categories, such as Template:Cambodiaphotomonthyear.
- This whole topic confuses a lot of people because they see the word "photographs" in a category name, think "I'm uploading a photograph, so my file must belong there ", and upload their file to a category where it doesn't belong. There is an open discussion about this at Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/11/Category:Photographs. There's pretty much a consensus that the category names need to be clearer, but not exactly what the names should be.
- I hope that answers your question. If not, feel free to ask more. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:42, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. The reason is clear to me. I used these categories (and created them) because it was common here to do it. Actually it was a kind of burden to me. Putting files into time categories manually is medieval. It's in the exif data. The Category Cambodia should be enough and the software should be able to create a list of 2018 photographs of Cambodia automatically. Thats what a media repository software should be able to do. Creating categories like Category:Thailand photographs taken on 2018-03-16 manually is... sorry....sick (but i have done it). I've created some own user templates thats puts it to the time and location categories (if they exist) to reduce the work a bit. But actually I am waiting for a wiki v2.0 (that will probably never come). Thanks for the explanation. I will have an eye on it and follow it when I do my next uploads. Fortunately I just need to adapt my own date template to move all my images, if needed. -- DerFussi 06:56, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Changing category:Justice building into Justice[edit]
Hello Auntof6, I've seen your revert, from "Justice building" to "Justice".
But at the page Category:Justice there is {{CatDiffuse}} and it is written at the top of the category there is too much files which should be moved to a subcategory. That was what I've done : when we look at the picture, we seen a building. Don't you think I was right to move the file to "Justice building" ? --Papa6 (talk) 11:37, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Papa6: You didn't move it to "Justice building" or even "Justice buildings", you moved it to "Justice Building". See the difference? In the one you moved it to, both words are capitalized. That's because it's the name of one specific building, a building in Canada. The file you changed appears to be for a building in Algeria. So, no, I don't think that move should have been done. There are other general categories for buildings that have to do with justice, such as Category:Courthouses. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:54, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
Category:USembassy miscelleanous events[edit]
You've (appropriately) put a {{Category for discussion}} tag on Category:USembassy miscelleanous events but you don't seem to have created the linked discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 15:21, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Jmabel: It's there. Are you seeing a red link? Maybe you need to refresh your cache. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:35, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks[edit]
Thanks to you, I discovered my misclick using cat-a-lot (concernes Category:Photographs by photographer from the Netherlands. 100 are corrected now. --Havang(nl) (talk) 11:29, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Havang(nl): You're welcome. I found those because I regularly check to see if there are files in any metacats. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:05, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Вікі любить пам'ятки 2018 в Україні[edit]
Вітаємо!
1 вересня вже традиційно стартувала українська частина міжнародного фотоконкурсу «Вікі любить пам'ятки»! До 30 вересня включно Ви можете подавати власні фото пам'яток історико-культурної спадщини України — і змагатися за призи. Цього року є трохи змін у правилах конкурсу:
- фотографії пам'яток, для яких на момент початку конкурсу (відповідно до відомої Організаційному комітету інформації) не було жодної ілюстрації на Вікісховищі або у Вікіпедії, отримують коефіцієнт рівний 7 (для кожної пам'ятки);
- фотографії автоматично вантажаться у категорію, яка бере учать у номінації за найбільшу кількість сфотографованих об'єктів, для того, щоб фото позмагалося у номінації за найкраще фото потрібно вибрати необхідні налаштування у завантажувачі;
- окремо буде нагороджено десять конкурсантів-новачків (тобто таких, які ще не брали участі у попередніх конкурсах «Вікі любить пам'ятки» в Україні), які сфотографували найбільше пам'яток.
Також у конкурсі є спецномінація банерів для статей у Вікімандрах, детальніше за посиланням.
Приєднуйтеся! Зі списками пам'яток можна ознайомитися тут. Більше інформації про конкурс дивіться у блозі конкурсу. Якщо у Вас є запитання, можете звертатися wlm
wikimedia.org.ua – З повагою, Оргкомітет «Вікі любить пам'ятки» 23:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
File:HA Neuhaus Mappe1 Militaria Kays Königl Generalitäts... 1817.jpg[edit]
Hello, Auntof6. Would you be so kind to help me to describe this picture and help me to put it into the correct Categories? I do not really know what that is exactly named nor what this is. But I am very sure, that some people will see it. I am sorry, normally I speak german, my English is not very well. Greetings from Linz, Austria. Zabia (talk) 15:33, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Zabia: I'm sorry, but I can't identify anything in it. Are you looking for categories for a particular subject area? A good place to ask for help is Commons:Village pump. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:43, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, I will do it. 04:42, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
