User:Leahtwosaints

I am a contributing editor of the English Wikipedia.

Trent Reznor in 2009

Sweet Honey in the Rock

I am completely new to Wikimedia and am hoping someone here will help me learn how to upload photos and place them in galleries etc. The same is true for those little sound clips that truly are great on barnstar pages.

Can someone give me a hand? Is there an adoption thing here? Please contact me if this is so. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 21:54, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Some favourite early uploads

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  Jeff Beck
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  David Lindley
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  Regina Carter
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  Mark Knopfler
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  Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters
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  Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
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  Tal Wilkenfeld
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  Cindy Blackman
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  Eric Clapton
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  Marcella Detroit
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  Peter Gabriel
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  Jaco Pastorius
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  John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
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  Santana

Flickr

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Guidelines

• Images should be tagged with {{Flickrreview}} for review by bot or trusted user.
• Images verified as freely available should be considered free, even if the license on Flickr changes.
• Images which are no longer freely available at time of review should be marked as possibly unfree pending a decision on what to do with them on Commons talk:Flickr files.

Manual

The Commons on Flickr

The Commons on Flickr hosts a number of files from various institutions that state that they have “No known copyright restrictions”.

See: {{Flickr-no known copyright restrictions}} and mail on commons-l, with discussion by George Oates, Flickr employee heading The Commons, expressing some reservations (The Commons on Flickr announcement).

Searching Flickr

A way of finding images on Flickr that can be uploaded to Commons is by using the search tools at Flickr. You can search images that are licensed by-2.0 or by-sa-2.0. The {{Flickr free}} template lets you search for images under either license.

Unfortunetely, not one stinking suggestion above works for me since I don't absorb people's instructions as quickly or easily as most people do, so prospective teachers here don't seem to hang around long enough be be certain that I actually understand how things work here.

Welcome templates and info I never got

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, CandyAppleRed!

First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. Getting help More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

Goodies, tips, and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities. You can find the files you have uploaded in your Uploads. Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~. To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:File:Foo.jpg]], which produces: File:Foo.jpg. You may enable gadgets (custom features) for your account. There are several tools to upload files. Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful. Made a mistake? Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it. Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Leahtwosaints!

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) 10:44, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Seth Lakeman - Folk by the Oak 2008.JPG was uncategorized on 20 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Eric Burdon & the Animals.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Danny Thompson.JPG was uncategorized on 20 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Iain Matthews.jpg was uncategorized on 20 January 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:44, 21 January 2010 (UTC)