File information

Description	This file has no description, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-desc-I|1=Information}}
Source	No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source.
Date
Author	This file has no author information, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-author-I|1=Information}}
Permission (Reusing this file)	See below.

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Not to be confused with Template:Information page.

Purpose

This template records and displays metadata for media files, such as photographs and diagrams. It includes a description of the file, its source, and its copyright status.

Usage

Full

Without optional fields

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> File information Description This file has no description, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-desc-I|1=Information}} Source No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source. Date Author This file has no author information, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-author-I|1=Information}} Permission (Reusing this file) See below. </syntaxhighlight>

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> File information Description This file has no description, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-desc-I|1=Information}} Source No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source. Date Author This file has no author information, and may be lacking other information. Files should have a summary to inform others of the content, author, source, and date if possible. If you know or have access to such information, please add it to the file page. Notify the uploader with: {{subst:add-author-I|1=Information}} Permission (Reusing this file) See below. </syntaxhighlight>

Syntax description

Mandatory parameters

description

Describe of the content, (historical) background, and in the case of scientific data, a brief scientific analysis of the media file.

author

Author(s) of the image. If no individual person is known, use the name of the institution that owns, published or released the file.

Other parameters

source

Explain where the image is acquired from. Please specify accurately. For instance:

1. Work of the uploader themself: Specify {{Own}}.
2. Acquired from a website: Specify the URL of the web page from which it is acquired. Optionally, include a direct link to the image. (Never include a direct link alone.)
3. Scanned from a book or magazine: Specify the title, author, publisher, publication year, ISBN and page of the book or title, issue, volume, publication month and year, ISSN (if available) and page of the journal. You can use {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}}.

date

Date of creation, or date of publication. Although not compulsory, it is advised to stick to the recommendations of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers § Dates. Specifically, please avoid ambiguous dates like 02/03/04 which can refer to 2 March 2004, 3 February 2004, 4 March 2002 or 3 April 2002, depending on the geographical origin of the person who sees it.

permission

Optional. Not to be mistaken with license. Description of the permissions granted by the copyright holder. Use only when the accompanying license tag is not enough. Note that the media file must still be tagged with the appropriate license template. Select a copyright tag from Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/All.

other versions

Optional. Links to other versions of this image. The links may be in form of a list of links or thumbnails of the other versions of the image. Please only link to images that can be used instead of the image at hand; do not use this field as a mean of grouping related files. Instead, use categories.

additional information

Optional. Contains other information about this image that doesn't fit somewhere else. For example, information that might be relevant to determining a file's proper copyright status (e.g. weblinks) might be provided this way.

Example

Example for File:Anders-Celsius-Head.jpg:

File information

Description	Part of an oil painting of Anders Celsius. Painting by Olof Arenius (1701 - 1766). The original painting is placed in the astronomical observatory of Uppsala University.
Source	Astronomical observatory of Uppsala University Source site: http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html Source URL: http://www.astro.uu.se/history/images/celsius3.jpg
Date	between 1701 - 1766
Author	Olof Arenius
Permission (Reusing this file)	Copyright expired as artist died more than 70 years ago
Other versions	File:Anders-Celsius.jpeg (full image)

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Information in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Information

<templatedata> { "params": { "description": { "required": true, "label": "Description", "aliases": [ "Description" ], "type": "string", "description": "Describe of the content, (historical) background, and in the case of scientific data, a brief scientific analysis of the media file." }, "source": { "required": true, "label": "Source", "aliases": [ "Source" ], "type": "string", "description": "Explain where the image is acquired from. Please specify accurately. (If it is the work of the uploader themself, use

1. REDIRECT Template:Own work

__EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. If it was acquired from a website, specify the URL of the web page from which it is acquired. Optionally, include a direct link to the image. (Never include a direct link alone.) If it was scanned from a book or magazine, specify the title, author, publisher, publication year, ISBN and page of the book or title, issue, volume, publication month and year, ISSN (if available) and page of the journal. You can use {{cite book}}: Empty citation (help) and {{cite journal}}: Empty citation (help).)\n"

}, "date": { "required": false, "label": "Date", "aliases": [ "Date" ], "type": "string", "description": "Date of creation or date of publication. Although not compulsory, it is advised to stick to the Manual of Style recommendations. Specifically, please avoid ambiguous dates like 02/03/04 which can refer to 2 March 2004, 3 February 2004, 4 March 2002 or 3 April 2002, depending on the geographical origin of the person who sees it." }, "author": { "required": true, "label": "Author", "aliases": [ "Author" ], "type": "string", "description": "Author(s) of the image. If no individual person is known, use the name of the institution that owns, published or released the file." }, "permission": { "required": false, "label": "Permission (extra information)", "aliases": [ "Permission" ], "type": "string", "description": "Not to be mistaken with license. Description of the permissions granted by the copyright holder. Use only when the accompanying license tag is not enough. Note that the media file must still be tagged with the appropriate license template." }, "other_versions": { "required": false, "label": "Other versions", "aliases": [ "Other_versions", "other versions" ], "type": "string", "description": "Links to other versions of this image. The links may be in form of a list of links or thumbnails of the other versions of the image. Please only link to images that can be used instead of the image at hand; do not use this field as a mean of grouping related files. Instead, use categories." }, "additional_information": { "required": false, "label": "Additional information", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "Additional_information", "Additional information", "additional information" ], "description": "Contains other information about this image that doesn't fit somewhere else. For example, information that might be relevant to determining a file's proper copyright status (e.g. web links) might be provided this way." } }, "description": "This template is used to make a standardized table providing information about files, including a description, its copyright status, and its source.", "format": "block" } </templatedata>

See also

• {{Information TV series screenshot}}, a similar template for a TV screenshot.
• {{Non-free use rationale}}, for use with on non-free images that must comply with Wikipedia's non-free content policy and that each appear in no more than one article.
• {{Non-free media data}} and {{Non-free media rationale}}, for use with non-free images that must comply with Wikipedia's non-free content policy and that may appear in more than one article.
• {{Notice}}

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