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.

The Information template
The information template is the suggested way to add metadata to images. This provided a uniform format for basic image information. Information is included in the Summary section of the image upload page. The template includes these details.


 * Description
 * Source
 * Date
 * Author
 * Permission
 * Other versions

Detailed information about how to fill in these fields is part of the information template documentation.

There is also an interesting page about this, and adding picture to a wiki in general, at Quality and Description.

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.