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Event:Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons-Arabic
Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons-Arabic
Start and end time
14:00, 7 March 2025 to 15:00, 7 March 2025
Location
Online event
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Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
Details
- Date: 7th March 2025
- Time: 14:00 UTC
- Durations: 1 hour
- Venue: Zoom - Join here
Trainer
is one of the Wiki Loves Africa Arabic Ambassadors, a Sudanese Wikimedian since 2018, co-founder of Sudan Community, Wikimedia Community User Group Sudan. She is mainly involved around recruiting new user community growth and visibility
About the training
The focus of the training session will be explain the different file formats accepted on Wikimedia Commons for audio, videos and images, understanding categories and the use of categories, understanding the importance of descriptions and showing hands on practical on how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons.
Participants will learn
- The file formats supported by Wikimedia Commons,
- How to get different file formats,
- The importance and use of categories,
- How to make file description shine, and
- The step-by-step processes of uploading files to Wikimedia Commons.
Target Audience
The training is targeted specifically at Wiki Loves Africa 2025, local organizers, participants and generally at Wikimedians interested in uploading files to Wikimedia Commons.