Help:Information Template

The Information Template is a powerful tool that can help you easily and neatly include specimen data, geolocation coordinates, assign copyright and more.

Introduction
The information template has the form: {{Information |date=
 * description=
 * source=
 * author=
 * permission=
 * other_fields=

You enter information in each field after the "=" and it displays all of this content in an information box:

{{Information }}
 * description= Nest entrance: base of Ephedra plant.
 * date= 30 July 2011
 * source= Specimen: Museum of Comparative Zoology Collection ; Image Copyright: The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
 * author=Gary D. Alpert
 * permission={{DCCL}}

General Input Rules

 * 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 create a small text file on your own computer to set up a personalized "information template" starter. You can copy and paste this into the summary box to get you started with lines of text that remain the same for your own image files.

This image:



was uploaded with the following entered in the information template fields:

and yields:

This image:



was uploaded with the following entered in the information template fields:

and yields:

and another set of drafted notes about the information template........

Information Template Fields
The following set of information fields are managed via a single template, which allows these fields to be shown in the following way:

This may be important to know if you want to edit this information after creating the page. The steps for doing this editing are in another section, found below, Help:Images.

Description
Describe the image in plain text. This does not need to be extensive but it can be as long as you like. Text added here can be useful in providing additional context to the image and for searching Antwiki. There is no need to repeat information already included elsewhere (e.g., the data or author)

Date
This should be the date the image was taken or created, not the upload date. This field can interpret many different forms of the date. You can see if the form you use is acceptable by uploading an image and examining the file description page. If it does not render the date correctly edit the page and modify your entry using a different format.

Source
In most cases the file is your own work or is the same as the author. If you add Own work here this field will show the text "." Other sources can be included here including links.

Author
The photographer or creator of the image file.

Permission
The following list has entries for each of the available licenses you can use. Each entry begins with an abbreviated name, the full name of the license, and a link to more information about the license. Simply add the abbreviated name, enclosed in double brackets (e.g., ), for any one of the the following:


 * Cc-by - Creative Commons Attribution License - Template:Cc-by
 * Cc-by-sa - should this be changed to Antwiki creative commons attribution default as given here Template:DCCL) Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License - Template:Cc-by-sa
 * Cc-by-nd - Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License - Template:Cc-by-nd
 * Cc-by-nc - Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License - Template:Cc-by-nc
 * Cc-by-nc-sa - Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike License - Template:Cc-by-nc-sa
 * Cc-by-sa-nd - Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License - Template:Cc-by-nc-nd
 * Cc-zero - Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Dedication - Template:Cc-zero
 * CC-pd - Public Domain Statement - Template:Cc-pd

You can also leave this field blank and instead choose a copyright license from the drop-down list under the Summary field (at the bottom of the Upload file page).