Template:Information/doc

{{TemplateBox
 * 1=description
 * 1d=description of the image (using multilingual templates like {{tlp|en|}})
 * 1stat=required
 * 2=source
 * 2d=information about where the file is from (own files should be tagged with {{tl|own}})
 * 2stat=required
 * 3=date
 * 3d=date of creation, in ISO 8601 format ("YYYY-MM-DD", or "YYYY-MM", or "YYYY", e.g. "2006-01-15" for "15 January 2006") or using {{tl|other date}}
 * 3stat=required
 * 4=author
 * 4d=original author of the file; where appropriate, use {{Creator:Name Surname}} with {{Tl|Creator}}.
 * 4stat=required
 * 5=permission
 * 5d=license information
 * 6=other_versions
 * 6d=links to files with very similar content; use.
 * 7=other_fields
 * 7d=additional table fields (in [escaped] wiki syntax)
 * name=Information
 * desc=Please give full information for the Source, Date, 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. Please use template {{tl|Painting}} if the image is of a painting or other two dimensional artwork.

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 First steps/Quality and description.

For representations of two-dimensional artworks please consider using {{tl|Painting}} instead of {{tl|Information}}.


 * namespace=File
 * usergroup=all
 * usage-notes=

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

The code above produces the following information table:

For many media it is desirable to use a geocoding template in addition to the Information template. }}
 * type=marker
 * example=
 * i18n-method=autotranslate
 * i18n-desc=
 * seealso=
 * setscats=
 * lines=multi
 * shorthand=
 * docsub-override=info

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.