Help:Taxobox images

One of the most basic editing tasks that editors can do to contribute to Antwiki is to add automontage images of workers to species page Taxoboxes. The current list of named pages that do not have images is found here:[:Category:Need_Images]. This page provides instructions on how this editing work can be accomplished.

Introduction
This help page includes a typical Taxobox, as you can see to the right. Here is what the Taxobox looks like when you are editing a species page:

XXX change this to new taxobox that is being used on species pages XXX

XXX change this to new taxobox that is being used on species pages XXX

The lines relevant to adding automontage images are the two lines near the top that begin:  | image   and the last three lines the begin   [[File:

When adding images it is important that only these lines are added to the Taxobox and that no other text is added or changed!

Species Images
There are a number of methods once can use to obtain automontage images for a species page. Whatever the source, it is important to obtain a set of images that represent a specimen that is correctly determined, is deposited in an accessible collection and includes specimen level collection data. If you do not even know what this means you should read about databased collection specimens. The images in the Taxobox shown on this page fit this criteria as they are from Antweb. All of antwebs images are taken of databased specimens, from pinned ants in museum ant collections and include an image of the pin's label.

You should only include images on Antwiki that you have permission to use and in adding them to the site agree that you can abide by Antwiki Copyright, |Attribution and  |Sharing Policies. Images that you take using your own equipment are perhaps the easiest to share, provided you are also the owner of the specimens you are photographing. It is, for example, not OK to borrow specimens from a museum, take photographs of those specimens and share them publicly unless the lending institution provides you with explicit permission to do so. Images shared under an acceptable Creative Commons or other Shared Copyright agreement are fine to use on Antwiki but you must add and include the images in a manner that follows the licensing rules that are assigned to those images.

If you are trying to find a set of acceptable images and there are none available there is an important edit you should make to the Antwiki species page. Go to the relevant web page and open the edit page window. If you scroll down to the very bottom of the editable portion of the page, you will find a category reference that looks like this:. You should change this Category by replacing the Need Images text with No Images Available, i.e., the category reference should now read:.