Template:Information/doc

{{TemplateBox 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.
 * 1=description
 * 1d=description of the image (or other file) (using multilingual templates like {{tlp|en|}})
 * 1stat=required
 * 2=date
 * 2d=date of creation by one of the next ways:
 * using {{tl|date}} or {{tl|other date}}
 * in ISO 8601 format ("YYYY-MM-DD", or "YYYY-MM", or "YYYY", e.g. "2006-01-15" for "15 January 2006")
 * 2stat=required
 * 3=source
 * 3d=information about where the file is from (own files should be tagged with {{tl|own}}); if the file is derivated work, the original work(s) should be designated
 * 4=author
 * 4d=original author of the file; where appropriate, use {{Creator:Name Surname}} with {{Tl|Creator}}. If the work is derivated, the author of the original (e. g. depicted or retouched) work should be mentioned as well.
 * 4stat=required
 * 5=permission
 * 5d=license information, eventually other usage limitations and warnings
 * 5def=blank field presented as „see-below“ text
 * 6=other_versions
 * 6d=links to files with very similar content or derivated files; use.
 * name=Information
 * desc=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. 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 for photograph
For example the source code of the description of photograph File:Piers Sellers spacewalk.jpg is:

The code above produces the following information table:

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

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.