Help:Taxobox images

One of the most basic editing tasks editors can do to help improve Antwiki is to add montage images of workers to the species page Taxoboxes. This help page provides instructions on how this editing work is accomplished.

Introduction
To the right is an example of a species page taxobox with montage images displayed in what is the Antwiki standard format. Having a standard for displaying taxobox images insures consistency across all the species pages.

Below is the information that needs to entered in an editing window to create the taxobox you see on the right.

The lines relevant to adding montage images are the two lines near the top that begin:  | image   and the last three lines that begin with  [[File:  or  [[: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
The three taxabox images should be of a set of montage images from a single worker. An exception would be if a species is only known from reproductive castes.

The best possible set of montage images are from a specimen that is deposited in an accessible collection and includes specimen level collection data. Images of ants in your own expertly curated collection, or images of ants from a museum that you have permission to photograph and post to the web, or Antweb images (Copyright under Creative Commons attribution license) may all fit this criteria.

This should be obvious - It is important that the images you post in the taxabox are properly identified.

Uploading Images
A help page about this topic is found here: Image Uploads

Overview
Taxobox images should include the following:
 * the frontal/head view of a worker, placed near the top of taxobox
 * a set of two images lower in the taxobox
 * side/lateral-view
 * top/dorsal-view
 * specimen data can be included in one of two ways
 * on the image File page of the specimen montage images
 * via a link to an image of the specimen label and placed just after the dorsal-view image

The details of how to accomplish this are explained in the following.

An "empty" taxobox
Here is the taxobox information you will see if you edit a species page without images:

Head View Image
The coding for the first image is added near the top of the taxobox just after the line that begins with "|name" field and before "|regnum."

{{Taxobox
 * name = Stenamma impar
 * regnum = Animalia
 * phylum = Arthropoda

This image specification includes two lines. The first line takes the form:
 * image = filename.jpg

The filename is the name of the image file without the File: prefix. For example, the image file File:Stenamma-impar-MCZ001H.jpg is added to the taxobox this way:

|image = Stenamma-impar-MCZ001H.jpg

Taxabox images are all kept to a standard size and this is specified for the head view image by the following line:

|image_width = {{width}}

Adding this information to the taxobox gives us:

{{Taxobox
 * name = Stenamma impar
 * image = Stenamma-impar-MCZ001H.jpg
 * image_width = {{width}}
 * regnum = Animalia
 * phylum = Arthropoda

Profile and Dorsal Images
The information specifying the second (profile or lateral view) and third (dorsal view) image is placed in the taxobox just after the line that begins "|binomial authority."

}}
 * genus = Stenamma
 * species = S. impar
 * binomial = Stenamma impar
 * binomial_authority = Forel, 1901

These images are specified by including the file name and width term (include the word "width" here, not a number), like the following:





You should include a space between the two image specifications as this provides for a break in the display of the lateral and dorsal view images.

If you want to display an image of the specimen labels this should also be added here. Instead of showing this image it should be listed as a link.

Specimen Label

Important difference in this syntax is the colon added just before File and the specification of the linked text by adding "Specimen Label" after the pipe symbol. This line should be given after the dorsal view image specification and an empty line. This would give us the following at the end of the taxobox: This would give us:


 * genus = Stenamma
 * species = S. impar
 * binomial = Stenamma impar
 * binomial_authority = Forel, 1901



Specimen Label }}

There may already be additional lines of information given after the "|binomial authority." line in the taxabox, depending on if there are synonyms or subspecies for a species. If this is the case you will still want to place the image specifications after the line that begins "|binomial authority."

An example of how to include this specimen image information in a taxabox that includes a synonyms (from Pheidole bicarinata):


 * genus = Pheidole
 * species = P. bicarinata
 * binomial = Pheidole bicarinata
 * binomial_authority = Mayr, 1870



Specimen Label

}}
 * synonyms =
 * Pheidole bicarinata vinelandica Forel, 1886
 * Pheidole hayesi Smith, M.R., 1924
 * Pheidole vinelandica buccalis Wheeler, W.M., 1908
 * Pheidole vinelandica laeviuscula Emery, 1895
 * Pheidole vinelandica longula Emery, 1895

An example of how to include this specimen image information in a taxobox that includes a synonym and subspecies (from Polyergus lucidus):


 * genus = Polyergus
 * species = P. lucidus
 * binomial = Polyergus lucidus
 * binomial_authority = Mayr, 1870



Specimen Label

}}
 * subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
 * subdivision =
 * Polyergus lucidus longicornis Smith, M.R., 1947
 * synonyms =
 * Polyergus lucidus montivagus Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Removing the "Image Needed" Category
Every species page that lacks taxobox images is included in the category Category:Need_Images. You should remove this category from any page where you add images to the taxobox. You can do this by going to the bottom of the species page, in editing mode, and deleting. This category will listed on the last line of the page.

If the last line does not also include either both of either of the two other categories " " you can also remove the species page stub (see the link in the stub box for how to do this):

Genus Page Taxoboxes
There are a few differences between the image display format for generic versus species level pages.

A caption is needed to show what what species is being displayed. A caption should be placed under the image of the head and between the lateral and dorsal images.

The second (lateral) and third (dorsal) images:
 * are placed under the heading "Species List"
 * to set the images off from the Diversity/Species List information a bar is placed before them. This is accomplished by placing a  tag.

Here is an example showing all of these features (from Aphaenogaster):

Images of Other Castes
Where should I put images of castes that are not shown in the taxabox?

A gallery of images for each caste can be included under the heading "Caste." See Pheidole bicarinata for an example.

Finding Species Pages with no Taxobox Images
Is there a way to find a smaller subset of species that need images besides looking through the entire Need Images category?

You can do a search using Special:MultiCategorySearch and look for pages by the Need Images category and a genus category (e.g., Category:Pheidole).

Other Resources
Image Help - The main image help page.