Commons:WikiProject Canada - Wikimedia Commons
 | This is WikiProject Canada, a WikiProject for focused collaboration among users on the topic of Canada. |
English: The Commons WikiProject Canada deals with Canadian public domain image, video, and sound issues. It has been established in June 2008 to create consistency in media naming and categories on commons for Canadian related media. To do so, the project proposes flexible guidelines to face problems such as: naming, managing category trees, and describing photographs. Besides uploading media, you can also help improve images. Images/media which are inaccurate or of poor quality can be identified and improved upon. There could also be established an interwiki link to Wikimedia Canada and Wikipedia WikiProject Canada. There could be support given to Wikimedia to organise drives to produce free photos of Canadian locations and petition Canadian governments to allow Commons to use some photos under crown copyright. The aim is to provide public domain media for every Canadian article. The emphasis is to detect missing pictures, missing categories and articles. For articles without images, find and upload media to wikipedia article. Any featured images should be rotated on the English Portal:Canada as well as on the French Portail:Canada The Canadian Commons Wikiproject should help us to spot the areas of weak coverage, help to identify unidentified articles, see what aspects, provinces and work groups need improved coverage.
As of November 7, 2007, there are 3320 articles within the scope of WikiProject Canada, of which 54 articles are featured, and 9 images which were featured.
Français : Le Wikiprojet Canada du Commons
Image names should be as descriptive and relevant as possible, following upload guidelines. For Canadian items, reaching this goal can be achieved by providing such necessary informations as:
- Keywords describing the work:
- Subject (if no title/author)
- English and French naming
- Anglais et français nommer ou description de l'objet
- Place name
- Date of work (in case of ambiguity);
- Name of the topic (follow the category name as much as possible);
- Author (if known/relevant),
- Title or name (if any),
- Type of work (if no title/author),
- Version information (when several versions of the same work are taken, a numbering—n1, n2—, a photograph date—2024-09-29—or any detail name—front, arm—could be used).
Further information could be added, but remember to keep image names short and useful for everybody.
You may wish to add {{WikiProject Canada}} to your user page to indicate membership
- SriMesh | talk 01:14, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Me too. Franamax 02:18, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I mine as well join too. -Royalguard11(Talk·@en) 20:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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- CambridgeBayWeather Talk 14:15, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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a Kwakwaka'wakw big house in Thunderbird Park, Victoria, British Columbia
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An aerial view of housing developments near Markham, Ontario
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Peyto Lake-Banff National Park-Canada
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Northwest Crown Fire Experiment
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Montreal City Hall
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Rogers Center and CN Tower, Toronto, Canada
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Provincial evolution
For this purpose, it may be helpful to sign up to TUSC account and use the FIST, the Free Image Search Tool.
- Check for Canadian requests at Picture requests, Free media resources for uploads to the Wikimedia Commons, Most wanted pages
- Identify Canadian Unidentified subject, like plants, people or animals that need to be identified.
- In these sections find Canadian content and categorize appropriately: Uncategorized pages, Uncategorized categories, Orphan pages, Orphan images
- Watch for Canadian content which may be deleted: Deletion requests, Candidates for speedy deletion
- Watch Images from Library and Archives Canada to ensure PD images are uploaded ~see discussion started regarding public domain images and Yousuf_Karsh
- Categorize images for Canada in Category:CC-BY-SA-2.0-CA and in Category:CC-BY-SA-2.5-CA, Category:Public domain
- Cantalk commons wikiproject
- Wikimedia Organise drives to produce free photos of Canadian locations
- Wikimedia Petition Canadian governments to allow Commons to use some photos under crown copyright
- Cantalk Library and Archives Canada non-PD images - Deletion
- Cantalk Canada Coat of Arms
- Cantalk Missing Images
- Image Question Deux public domain Canada
- Began discussions on this talk page
English: Categories are the most convenient way to manage the whole collection of a countries geographical/political subdivisions as well as workgroups to enhance locating images. As there are many different situations depending on the geographical location/workgroup, it is wise to look into the Canadian category tree to see what exists already, and proceed from there. List new photos by Canadian place, photo topic or subject, year, season. List building by architecture, brick or wooden building, building use ie school, stadium, church etc. If uploading more than one photo in a specific area begin a new sub category within a main category within a few main categories. If it is a geographical feature such as a Canadian lake it may fall into a geographical category such as Category:Lakes as well as a Canadian category.