User:Pelikana

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This user has uploaded 11295 images to Wikimedia Commons.

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1956, Dutch,
male, painter, webdesigner, graphic designer, 3D-designer, animal photographer
wikipedia writer, translator, editor,
call me Peli. {{Dont overwrite}}

The 'Swiss knife of categorizing' - a special search extention - Search outside of category - beta testing

Looking for a new tool in your swiss knife of categorizing? Beta testers wanted!

Insert the following script line in your common.js to get a very special search button. For quick "quoted keyword" searches outside the category u are looking at. Excellent if used for small size categories. Example: "Jan Steen" -deepcat:"Jan Steen".

A very usefull scanner for instantly 'scraping' scattered files that (after a deeper check) should be in a new, an existing or a planned category. The tool was proposed by me in the tech cafe and developed by Sam Wilson, who hosts this extention. The tool was tested and found very usefull in many many cases.

mw.loader.load( 'https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Samwilson/Searchnotincat.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' ); window.rotateDontPurge = true;

Reviews are very welcome help to help propose this 'cutting edge tool' for becoming an official button, available for all users who could appreciate and enjoy it.

Your common.js to be edited is found under User:YourNick/common.js Replace [YourNick] with your nickname. Insert the script lines and save the page.

Known limitations: It does not work on categories which have lots and lots of subcategories for example large cities, let alone whole countries. But exellent for instantly checking multi word sequences like "artist names" or "book titles". Of course the quote can be manually adjusted and refined with + or NOT operators. On category pages the button will be found under More > "Search outside of category".

Updated recommendation: 29 November 2025

Venationes Ferarum
Pelikanen in Artis. Jan van Essen, 1880
Ludwig Hohlwein - Pelikan Tuschen. Plakatenwurf

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