Help:Images

Image management within Antwiki follows the protocols of Mediawiki. See Mediawiki for details (or Images and other uploaded files for a more general discussion).

The gallery of images and image file list show files recently added to Antwiki.

Easy Short Instructions for adding image information
For Gary and Steve:

You can begin using this anytime. It is pretty easy to use and figure out. The following is a simple example of the information you might want to add with an image. All you do is put something like you see below into the summary box on the Special:Upload page.

Entering something like what you see above would result in what you see on this page File:Testing03.jpg

You could add any other information to the summary field, outside of the information and location blocks, that you wanted to include. It will all show up on the file page. Editing this information after uploading is fine too. You could add any of what is included above to any existing image page. Just go to the image file and click on edit. So feel free to play around with all this as you can easily fix anything on a page that does not work the way you thought it would (how nice that you are not messing up a database if you change any of this info!)

We could do other things with this template, in terms of its fields, but what I presented here I think is good enough for us. Steve may want to look into the documentation of this template [] to see if there is anything else we should consider, in terms of information to put in here. Gary too may have a suggestion about another field or two we might want to include here. Most of the tweaking that remains though is to how this is presented (i.e. formatting) but that does not affect the information itself.

Some notes that might be helpful.


 * The information template is set up as given below. You add information to the right of the =


 * The date can be input many different ways; it is pretty good at figuring out various date formats.
 * You can leave the permission field blank or add whatever template for permissions (there is a list of them way down there somewhere on this long page) you want to use here. You could also just use the selection box on the bottom of the Special:Upload page for adding a permissions license.
 * The Own work for the source that I included in my example is a template that is part of the information template set. It fills this field with the text 
 * The "other fields" line can be left out entirely or used for specimen data (in the example entry you could add anything where the "xxxx" is and it will show up in the information box).
 * The "other fields" line is flexible; you could put any text in place of specimen where it has "name=Specimen" and that text will show up as a heading. Also any text can be put in after the value=
 * You can easily create a small text file on your own computer to set up a personalized information template starter. This way you do not have to fill all of this out every time:


 * I would suggest we all use "DCCL" template for now for our image permission. This can serve as our default Antwiki permission. We can adjust and fix what this template says before we launch but it would be good for the many images the site will start out with to have the same default permission. For now this template looks like:

Either of the following geolocation data formats will work. You just need to adjust the numbers and, if you use the second format, the N/S and E/W. This information entry is not part of the information template.

The categories are whatever you want to add. I think you will both really like what happens when you add a species or genus category. Check out this for an example Category:Aphaenogaster or Category:Aphaenogaster barbara. I added categories to all of Steve's file uploads that have the name Aphaenogaster in them (images and two graphics). You could take a look at those images to see how I was playing around with this. They all share this category Category:Aphaenogaster but if you click on individual images there are some differences in their category sets. We should, I think, come up with some general standards for the categories to use. Not everyone will follow them but if you guys upload a boatload of images, it will set precedents that most will likely follow.

If you have any questions about any of this just ask. There is a lot that can be done here with how all this info is presented and organized. Yet I don't think it will change anything about the basic set of information you will likely include with an image. If there is any tweaking to be done to this, you will figure that out as you begin uploading files and gaining experience with how this works for both of you.

Alright, you can both ignore the rest of this page for now. I have to figure out how all these things work and set up instructions for an editor/contributor.

Preparing for Uploading
There are a few steps to take before you begin uploading an image.


 * Be sure this is an image you have permission to use


 * Decide on the copyright you want to assign to your work.


 * Have your image in a form (image size and file size) that is acceptable for use in Antwiki


 * You may want to prepare information for your image. It is possible to attach metadata to your image file or prepare the summary information text that can be uploaded and included with your image upload (see below).

The Upload Page and Image Information
From the Toolbox menu on the left side of the website, click on "Upload file." This will bring you to the Special:Upload page.

Choose a file to upload, using the browse button from the Source File section of the webpage.

You can change the file name of the image you are uploading by typing in a new name in the Destination filename area.

The summary box is where you can add information about the image. This information will be shown on the webpage that is created for your photo when you upload the file.

Summary Box Image Information
You should include a number of important pieces of information with your image. These include the photographer, date, etc.

Here is an example of a summary box entry:

The image below was uploaded using the text above. You can see the image page and how this information is rendered here: or by clicking on the image (a default behavior for any image that is shown on an Antwiki webpage).



There are four main parts to entering image information.

Information Template
The template includes the following fields: * Description * Source * Date * Author * Permission

The data/information is entered by adding text after the = sign in this form (the information template):

The permission field can be left blank if you want to use the default Antwiki permissions (see below):

You can add specimen data by including another line to the information template, like the example shown below, and replacing "xxxxx" with your specimen information:

You can find more information about each of these fields at the Template:Information/doc page.

Georeference Data
Including a line like the following anywhere on a page:

produces:

The georeference information can be viewed in a variety of mapping programs. Click on the lat/long listing to see a large table of possibilities or just click on the one of text options listed further to the right of the georeference box to see a specific rendering of the mapped location.

An alternative input option:

Categories
Add whatever categories seem sensible. Categorizing your image can be a bit of extra work but it does help others to find all the great photos you contribute to Antwiki. Every category listed on an image page creates, or adds to, a gallery-of-images page for each category. The image given above for example is shown on this image category page:.

We strongly suggest that any image of an ant include a category for the species name or, if not identified to species, a genus category. For example, the following image is placed into three categories:



You can look at each of these category pages to see how these get sorted out with similarly categorized pages and files.
 * Category:Aphaenogaster
 * Category:Aphaenogaster kimberleyensis
 * Category:automontage image

Copyright/Permissions
You can use the drop-down list under the Summary field (at the bottom of the Upload file page) to choose the type of license you would like to apply to the uploaded file.


 * Creative Commons Attribution License - Template:Cc-by
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License - Template:Cc-by-sa
 * Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License - Template:Cc-by-nd
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License - Template:Cc-by-nc
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike License - Template:Cc-by-nc-sa
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License - Template:Cc-by-nc-nd
 * Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Dedication - Template:Cc-zero
 * Public Domain Statement - Template:Cc-pd

If you do not select a copyright/permissions option the default Antwiki copyright will be applied. This default is permission to use the image in any manner provided there is attribution given to the author and Antwiki.

Need Revision
There is also an interesting page about adding pictures to a wiki at Quality and Description.

other image related tasks, and other pages to look over, towards the bottom of this page: Sandbox/images

InstantCommons
Antwiki has enabled the Mediawiki InstantCommons. This means that all images found in Mediawiki Commons can be accessed in the same way as images uploaded directly into Antwiki. This saves considerable time and effort and minimises duplication.

One caution is that if you try to upload an image that is already found in Mediawiki Commons you will get a "duplicate file found" warning, even though the image hasn't been uploaded to Antwiki. While you can ignore this warning and add this second copy, it would be better to abort the upload and use the Mediawiki Commons copy instead.

Copyright templates
Templates have been created to document the copyright status of uploaded files. The most appropriate license can be included in the "Comments" section for image, together with additional details as required. The current templates include:


 * Creative Commons Attribution License - Template:Cc-by
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License - Template:Cc-by-sa
 * Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License - Template:Cc-by-nd
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License - Template:Cc-by-nc
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike License - Template:Cc-by-nc-sa
 * Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License - Template:Cc-by-nc-nd
 * Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Dedication - Template:Cc-zero
 * Public Domain Statement - Template:Cc-pd

When uploading images using Special:Upload these licences can be selected using the drop-down list under the Summary field.

Bulk uploads
If you are uploading only a few images then it is best to use the normal image upload page. However, if you have a large number of images to upload then Antwiki management (those with access to the server) can use the maintenance script ImportImages to upload any number of images in a single operation. We can also add metadata (attribution notes, copyright conditions, etc.) at the same time. See ImportImages for instructions on preparing these metadata files.

If you have a large image collection let us known and we'll discuss the details of organising a bulk upload.

Geographic location - Geocoding
Place is important, even for images. It is highly recommended that geographic information be added to images where possible. Please see the Location template documentation for details of how this information should be recorded within the Information template.

For a more extensive discussion of geooding see Geocoding at Wikimedia Commons.