Template:Information

DescriptionInformation
Source
Author
Other versions

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Please give full information for the description, 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 scanning or digitizing. If the photographic image has been modified please give author, date and license for each modification. Please use template {{Artwork}} or {{Art photo}} if the image is of a painting, sculpture or other artwork and {{Book}} if the image is a part of a complete set of page scans of a book (or in the case of DjVu and PDF, one file may comprise all the pages).

This template is used to provide formatting to the basic information for files (description, source, author, etc.), and it is automatically inserted by the upload tools. All the field names are not case sensitive.

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

The template automatically sets the following categories: Category:Author matching Creator template, Creator template not used when appropriate

Usage

{{Information|description=|date=|source=|author=|permission=|other versions=}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description (this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)	Default value	required or optional?
description		SDC's captions followed by {{Description missing}}	required
date		empty	optional
source		{{Source missing}}	required
author		{{Author missing}}	required
permission		empty	optional
other versions		empty	optional
other fields		empty	optional
other fields 1		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, Template:Parse source, Module:TemplatePar

References:

TemplateData

This template is used to provide formatting to the basic information for files (description, source, author, etc.). For a full usage description of the template, see Commons:First steps/Quality and description.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template has custom formatting.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Description	description Description	Description of the image or media file, including subject and location Default {{description missing}} Example Photo of a penguin in Antarctica	String	required
Date of creation	date Date	When the original source was created Example 2001-12-31	Date	suggested
Source	source Source	Where the file is from. Your own files should be tagged with {{own}}. Default {{source missing}}	String	required
Author	author Author	Original author of the file; where appropriate, use {{Creator:Name Surname}}. Default {{author missing}}	Line	required
Permission	permission Permission	License and other usage limitations and warnings	Content	suggested
Other versions	other versions other_versions Other versions Other_versions	Links to files with very similar content or derived files	File	optional
Other fields	other fields other_fields Other_fields Other fields	Additional table fields added on the bottom of the template	File	optional
Other fields 1	other fields 1 other_fields_1 Other_fields_1 Other fields 1	Additional table fields added between Description and Date rows	File	optional
lang	lang Lang	no description	Unknown	deprecated
demo	demo Demo	no description	Unknown	deprecated

Example usage

Example for photograph

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

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{{Information
 | Description =
{{en|Astronaut [[w:Piers Sellers|Piers Sellers]] during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques.}}

The code hereinbefore produces the following information table:

DescriptionInformation	English: Astronaut Piers Sellers during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques.
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
Author	NASA, astronaut Michael Edward Fossum

Example other_fields

Example using the other fields parameter to display a credit line:

{{Information
 | Description = Description
 | Date = 2008-06-09
 | Source = {{own}}
 | Author = John Doe
 | Other fields = {{Credit line |Author = © John Doe | Other = Wikimedia Commons |License = CC-BY-3.0 & GFDL}}
}}

will produce:

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

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 an hCard microformat, and use the contents of {{Description}} as the hCalendar's "description" property.

See also Commons:Machine-readable data.

See also

• Commons:Infobox templates; for a more complete overview of provided templates see the Category:Infobox templates
• {{Book}} for specialized infobox template used for book page scans
• {{Information field}} and {{Credit line}}
• {{Translation table}} for category descriptions

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Information/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
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