Help:Images

Image management within Antwiki follows the protocols of Mediawiki. See Mediawiki for complete details.

Uploaded File Information
The following can be copied into the summary field of the upload form, and any field can be filled in. This is part of the Template:Information.

Detailed information about how to fill in these fields can be found here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information/doc

There is also an interesting page about this, and adding picture to a wiki in general, here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps/Quality_and_description

Currently trying to get this template to work.....see this example File:Aphaenogaster_richness_legend.jpg. It did not handle the date in the form of the year (do I need to install http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Other_date and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Other_date ? see (see To_Do_Image_Handling for notes about Information template). It also did not handle my source entry ("created by author") and the names of the fields are not rendering correctly.

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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

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 - Geotagging
Place is important, even for images. It is highly recommended that geographic information be added to images where possible. Please see Template:Location/doc for details of how this information should be recorded.