Template:Documentation subpage
Purpose
This template records and displays metadata for media files, such as photographs and diagrams. It includes a description of the file, its source, and its copyright status.
Usage
{{Information
| description =
| source =
| date =
| author =
| other_versions =
}}
Parameters
- description
- Describe of the content, (historical) background, and in the case of scientific data, a brief scientific analysis of the media file.
- author
- Author(s) of the image. If no individual person is known, use the name of the institution that owns, published or released the file.
- source
- Explain where the image is acquired from. Please specify accurately. For instance:
- Work of the uploader themself: Specify "Own work".
- Acquired from a website: Specify the URL of the web page from which it is acquired. Optionally, include a direct link to the image. (Never include a direct link alone.)
- Scanned from a book or magazine: Specify the title, author, publisher, publication year, ISBN and page of the book or title, issue, volume, publication month and year, ISSN (if available) and page of the journal.
- date
- Date of creation, or date of publication. Please avoid ambiguous dates like 02/03/04 which can refer to 2 March 2004, 3 February 2004, 4 March 2002 or 3 April 2002, depending on the geographical origin of the person who sees it.
- other versions
- Optional. Links to other versions of this image. The links may be in form of a list of links or thumbnails of the other versions of the image.
Example
Example for File:Anders-Celsius-Head.jpg:
- Source site: http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html
- Source URL: http://www.astro.uu.se/history/images/celsius3.jpg
File:Anders-Celsius.jpeg (full image)
TemplateData
This template is used to make a standardized table providing information about files, including a description, its copyright status, and its source.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | description Description | Describe of the content, (historical) background, and in the case of scientific data, a brief scientific analysis of the media file. | String | required |
| Source | source Source | Explain where the image is acquired from. Please specify accurately. (If it is the work of the uploader themself, use "Own work". If it was acquired from a website, specify the URL of the web page from which it is acquired. Optionally, include a direct link to the image. (Never include a direct link alone.) If it was scanned from a book or magazine, specify the title, author, publisher, publication year, ISBN and page of the book or title, issue, volume, publication month and year, ISSN (if available) and page of the journal. | String | required |
| Date | date Date | Date of creation or date of publication. Please avoid ambiguous dates like 02/03/04 which can refer to 2 March 2004, 3 February 2004, 4 March 2002 or 3 April 2002, depending on the geographical origin of the person who sees it. | String | optional |
| Author | author Author | Author(s) of the image. If no individual person is known, use the name of the institution that owns, published or released the file. | String | required |
| Other versions | other_versions Other_versions other versions | Links to other versions of this image. The links may be in form of a list of links or thumbnails of the other versions of the image. | String | optional |
