Template:Information
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 | This template is basically a copy of {{information}} from Commons: |
(this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)
Please give full information for the date, source and author fields. The date of a photograph must be when the original photograph was created, and not the date of upload, nor the date of any scan or other derivative action. If the photographic image has been modified please give author, date and license for each modification.
This template is used to provide formatting to the basic information for files (file content, license, authorship information etc.). This template is automatically inserted by the Javascript-aided upload tool too.
For a full usage description of the template, see commons:Commons:First steps/Quality and description.
Usage
{{Information
|description=
|author=
|date=
|source=
|permission=
|other_versions=
|other_fields=
}}
(this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)
Example usage
Example for photograph
For example the source code of the description of photograph File:Piers Sellers spacewalk.jpg is:
{{Information
| Description = {{en|Astronaut [[w:Piers Sellers|Piers Sellers]] during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques.}}<!--
{{fr|L'astronaute [[:fr:Piers Sellers|Piers Sellers]] durant sa troisième sortie dans l'espace au cours du vol STS-121, une démonstration des techniques de réparation du bouclier thermique.}}-->
| Author = NASA
| Date = 2006-07-12
| Source = [http://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/index.html NASA News & Events] - http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/hi-resjpgs/14.jpg, from http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/index_noaccess.html
| Permission = {{PD-USGov-NASA}}
| Other_versions = .tiff
}}
The code above produces the following information table:
| Description |
English: Astronaut Piers Sellers during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques. |
| Author | NASA |
| Date | |
| Source | NASA News & Events - http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/hi-resjpgs/14.jpg, from http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/index_noaccess.html |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
This work is in the public domain because it was created by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), whose copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". Please note that use of NASA logos is restricted by law, but these are not copyright restrictions.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
| Other versions | .tiff |
Example other_fields
Example using the other_fields parameter to display a credit line :
{{Information
| Description = description
| Author = John Doe
| Date = 2008-06-09
| Source = {{Own work}}
| Other_fields = {{Credit line |Author = © John Doe | Other = Wikimedia Commons |License = CC-BY-3.0 & GDFL}}
}}
will produce:
| Description | description |
| Author | John Doe |
| Date | |
| Source | Own work |
| Attribution (required by the licence) |
© John Doe / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0 & GDFL |
Recommendations
For many media it is desirable to use a geocoding template in addition to the Information template.
Parameters
| Parameter name | Description (this part of the documentation is only available in some languages) | Default value | required or optional?
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|---|---|---|---|
| description | description of the image (and/or title if text file) (using multilingual templates like {{en|}}) | empty | required |
| author | original author or creator of the file; where appropriate, use [[Author:Name Surname]] or apply {{Creator}}. If the work is derivated, the author of the original (e. g. depicted or retouched) work should be mentioned as well. | empty | required |
| date | date of publication or creation by one of the following methods:
If needed, the date have to be furnished with some specifying text (e. g. „date of taken“ or „date of creation“, „date of the first publication“, „date of modification“ etc.). If you use such text specification or more dates, the ISO format is unusable and the date template is needed. |
empty | required |
| source | information about where the file is from (own files should be tagged with {{own}}); if the file is derivated work, the original work(s) should be designated | empty | optional |
| permission | license information, eventually other usage limitations and warnings | blank field presented as „see-below“ text | optional |
| other_versions | links to files with very similar content or derivated files; use<gallery></gallery>. | empty | optional |
| other_fields | additional table fields (in [escaped] wiki syntax) | empty | optional |
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces:
- the File namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups:
Relies on:
Template:ISOdate
Microformat
This template also emits an hCalendar microformat marking the creation of the image as an event. To do this, it requires the {{Date}} template, and takes the file name as the "summary" property. Optionally, it can include the {{Photographer}} (soon also {{Creator}}) as an attendee and an hCard microformat, and use the contents of {{Description}} as the hCalendar's "description" property. Coordinates may be included by use of {{Location}}, {{Location dec}} or {{Object location}}.