Help:Taxobox images

One of the most basic editing tasks editors can do to help improve the quality of Antwiki is to add montage images of workers to the species page Taxoboxes. This 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 formatted in what has become an Antwiki standard. We strongly urge you to insert images using this standard format, as explained below. Doing so will help create consistency across all species pages.

Below is the information used to generate the taxobox (this is the taxobox text you will see if you are editing this information).

The lines relevant to adding montage images are the two lines near the top that begin:  | image   and the last three lines that begin   [[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 best possible set of montage images to use for a species page taxobox are from a specimen that is deposited in an accessible collection and includes specimen level collection data. Images of your own ants, 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.

Feel free to use images that do not fit this criteria if museum curated specimens are not readily available. Curated specimen images may become available later and can replace the older images at any time.

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

Adding Images to the Taxobox
Once images are uploaded to Antwiki they can be added to the taxobox. The standard format includes the frontal/head view of a worker, placed just after the species name in the taxobox header. A set of two images are positioned just after the "binomial name" information. The first of this set of images is a side/lateral-view followed by a top/dorsal-view. After the last image is a link to an image of the specimen label.

The following details the specifics of adding each of these elements to the taxobox:

Here is a taxobox that has no image information:

Image 1
The first image, of the head, is edited in near the top of the taxobox. It comes after the "name" field and before the field named "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 simply listed as

Stenamma-impar-MCZ001H.jpg

For the taxabox, the full line to be added to the taxobox is:


 * image = Stenamma-impar-MCZ001H.jpg

The second line to be added here specifies the dimensions of this image. All that needs to be placed here is the following:


 * 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

Images 2 & 3
The second and third images are placed towards the end of the taxobox. The lines added to the taxobox are inserted just after the line for the "binomial authority."

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

There will be either two or three lines added here. The first two lines are for the images and the third line is for adding a link to the Specimen Labels.

Inserting the Images

The image specifications included the file name and the image dimensions. The file name is separated from the image dimensions specification using a "pipe." This symbol is with the forward slash

File:Stenamma-impar-MCZ001L.jpg |



File:Stenamma-impar-MCZ001D.jpg|

File:Stenamma-impar-MCZ001Label.jpg | Specimen Label

File:Stenamma-impar-MCZ001D.jpg|

File:Stenamma-impar-MCZ001Label.jpg | Specimen Label

An example of a taxobox that includes subspecies:


 * binomial = Temnothorax ambiguus
 * binomial_authority = (Emery, 1895)




 * subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
 * subdivision =
 * Temnothorax ambiguus foveatus Smith, M.R., 1934
 * Temnothorax ambiguus pinetorum Wesson L.G. & Wesson, R.G., 1940

}}

An example of a taxobox that includes a synonym:


 * binomial = Temnothorax allardycei
 * binomial_authority = (Mann, 1920)


 * synonyms =
 * Antillaemyrmex floridanus Wheeler, W.M., 1931

}}

Finding Species Pages with no Taxobox Images
The current list of named pages that do not have images is found here:Category:Need_Images.