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| - So you want your photos or other files to be used by the Omnipedia project, but you don't want to spend the time to upload them individually and categorize them? Then the File Upload Service is for you. It's a free service provided by Omnipedia authors who know their way around the system and who can easily receive and upload a large number of files. To use the service, you need to do the following: 1.
* Put all the photos you want to upload in a directory. 2.
* Create a text file, for example, by running a program like NotePad or Word. The file should be called "files.txt" or "files.doc". 3.
* In that text file or document, list the filenames along with a description for each file, like this: >DutchParliament.jpg Robert G. Example in front of the Dutch parliament. >Cauliflower.jpg A fresh cauliflower. Make sure every line containing a filename starts with a ">" character. You can also add other information, like categories, to the text file, but you don't have to. Formatting examples:
* @{{SQN}} [[Category:SQ6]] - This text is appended to every description.
* °Dog photo - This text is used when no description exists.
* >Dog01.jpg - Name of a file in the specified directory.
* German shepherd dog - Description (can be multi-line).
* >Dog02.jpg - File without a description (use default) The "@" and "°" lines are optional, and must be in one line. They can occur multiple times in a single file and are only valid until they are changed. As a consequence, description lines cannot start with "@" or "°". Now you can use an archiving program like WinZip to create an archive of all the files in the directory, and send them to pcj with any other necessary details. Or do it yourself.
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