Template:Information/doc

---

(this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)

Please give full information for the date, source and author fields. The date of a photograph must be when the original photograph was created, and not the date of upload, nor the date of any scan or other derivative action. If the photographic image has been modified please give author, date and license for each modification.

This template is used to provide formatting to the basic information for files (file content, license, authorship information etc.). This template is automatically inserted by the Javascript-aided upload tool too.

For a full usage description of the template, see commons:Commons:First steps/Quality and description.

Usage

{{Information
|description=
|author=
|date=
|source=
|permission=
|other_versions=
|other_fields=
}}

(this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)

Example usage

Example for photograph

For example the source code of the description of photograph File:Piers Sellers spacewalk.jpg is:

{{Information
| Description    = {{en|Astronaut [[w:Piers Sellers|Piers Sellers]] during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques.}}<!--
		{{fr|L'astronaute [[:fr:Piers Sellers|Piers Sellers]] durant sa troisième sortie dans l'espace au cours du vol STS-121, une démonstration des techniques de réparation du bouclier thermique.}}-->
| Author         = NASA
| Date           = 2006-07-12
| Source         = [http://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/index.html NASA News & Events] - http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/hi-resjpgs/14.jpg, from http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/index_noaccess.html
| Permission     = {{PD-USGov-NASA}}
| Other_versions = .tiff
}}

The code above produces the following information table:

DescriptionInformation/doc	English: Astronaut Piers Sellers during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques.
Author	NASA
Date	12 July 2006
Source	NASA News & Events - http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/hi-resjpgs/14.jpg, from http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/121_gallery/index_noaccess.html
Permission (Reusing this file)
Other versions	.tiff

Example other_fields

Example using the other_fields parameter to display a credit line :

{{Information
| Description  = description
| Author       = John Doe
| Date         = 2008-06-09
| Source       = {{Own work}}
| Other_fields = {{Credit line |Author = © John Doe | Other = Wikimedia Commons |License = CC-BY-3.0 & GDFL}}
}}

will produce:

DescriptionInformation/doc	description
Author	John Doe
Date	9 June 2008
Source	Own work
Attribution (required by the licence)	© John Doe / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0 & GDFL

Recommendations

For many media it is desirable to use a geocoding template in addition to the Information template.

Parameters

Parameter name	Description (this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)	Default value	required or optional?
description	description of the image (and/or title if text file) (using multilingual templates like {{en|}})	empty	required
author	original author or creator of the file; where appropriate, use [[Author:Name Surname]] or apply {{Creator}}. If the work is derivated, the author of the original (e. g. depicted or retouched) work should be mentioned as well.	empty	required
date	date of publication or creation by one of the following methods: using {{date}} or {{other date}} in ISO 8601 format, e.g. "2006-01-15" for "15 January 2006". The following formats are recognized: YYYY ← YEAR is the minimum date you must provide. YYYY-MM YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss If needed, the date have to be furnished with some specifying text (e. g. „date of taken“ or „date of creation“, „date of the first publication“, „date of modification“ etc.). If you use such text specification or more dates, the ISO format is unusable and the date template is needed.	empty	required
source	information about where the file is from (own files should be tagged with {{own}}); if the file is derivated work, the original work(s) should be designated	empty	optional
permission	license information, eventually other usage limitations and warnings	blank field presented as „see-below“ text	optional
other_versions	links to files with very similar content or derivated files; use<gallery></gallery>.	empty	optional
other_fields	additional table fields (in [escaped] wiki syntax)	empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces:

• the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups:

• all users

Relies on:
Template:ISOdate

Microformat

This template also emits an hCalendar microformat marking the creation of the image as an event. To do this, it requires the {{Date}} template, and takes the file name as the "summary" property. Optionally, it can include the {{Photographer}} (soon also {{Creator}}) as an attendee and an hCard microformat, and use the contents of {{Description}} as the hCalendar's "description" property. Coordinates may be included by use of {{Location}}, {{Location dec}} or {{Object location}}.