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Including Images in this Wiki

We need to have a clear statement about what licenses we require and how you're supposed to tag/include images in this wiki. Right now we're primarily hotlinking camera images from Flickr (which is fine to do), but I think we also need to give credit to the photographer in the case of Creative Commons licenses. We might want to see how the big Wikipedia handles all this. --Lbstone 15:02, 31 January 2006 (EST)

I just noticed this Adding Images page. Need to look at it more. We need to make sure we give credit to Creative Commons images. Basically all the CC licenses require attribution. --Lbstone 15:00, 5 February 2006 (EST)

currently, i'm deciding against getting direct images from people, i would like users to the person's page, is this good? --toxpose

Actually it is not allowed by Flickr to insert a direct link to an image they are hosting without providing a link to the corresponding Flickr page too. See Camerapedia.org:Adding Images for a full explanation. --Rebollo fr 14:11, 10 June 2006 (EDT)

Templates or Categories

This has been something that I've wondered about for a while... On pages like the Fuji FinePix V10 page we have a {{Fuji}} template at the bottom of the page. This is an idea that I started a while ago, but I wonder if it's a better idea to use categories rather than this kind of template. Any thoughts? --Lbstone 01:57, 21 January 2006 (EST)

I think both are good: categories are useful for some types of listings, and it would probably be good to have a Category for Fuji cameras, Canon cameras, and so on. On the other hand, templates allow you to have links to the most prominent articles on the same theme, for example the {{Olympus classic}} template (see Template:Olympus classic) acts like a menubar. --Rebollo fr 08:06, 21 January 2006 (EST)

Yeah, both seems fine. --Lbstone 13:28, 29 January 2006 (EST)

camera reviews

What about a list with sources of camera reviews?

I can't think of a good reason not to do this. I say give it a try and we'll see if it works. --Lbstone 13:27, 29 January 2006 (EST)

Pages to be deleted

I have created a list of Pages to be deleted, so anybody can put them there, with the reason why it should be deleted. --Rebollo fr 15:41, 30 January 2006 (EST)

Great idea! --Lbstone 15:07, 31 January 2006 (EST)

Standards

Started a page for Standards information/basic guides for article writing.

Skip 02:45, 1 February 2006 (EST)

Good idea. I've also thought about having a standard template for basic camera specs. For example, go to the University of Oxford page in the big Wikipedia... hit the edit tab... then notice the Infobox_University template. This template allows you to just populate certain variables and it will automatically create a formatted "information box" for you. This method could be very helpful for displaying basic camera specs like the ones in your Standards page. --Lbstone 11:07, 1 February 2006 (EST)

I played around with the template a bit, got something basic going, couldn't get the paramaters to not display unless they're used, but a decent start... Camera Template, used it here --Skip 07:10, 2 February 2006 (EST)

That is great! You can get rid of {{{battery}}} by typing |battery=|, for example, but that lets the Battery: line. It would be great if you could switch a line on or off, but I doubt it is possible.

I have made some propositions in the discussion page of the template. --Rebollo fr 11:34, 2 February 2006 (EST)

This is very, very nice! I think we're really onto something here. ;) --Lbstone 09:24, 4 February 2006 (EST)

I added some more stuff to the Template - help me out here if there's too much or too little. Some of the sections I added are for digital cameras only, but of course one can delete the unnecessary sections as one likes according to the camera on the specific article page. -- Simonides 02:12, 5 February 2006 (EST)

I created a Template:Infobox Camera that has changes that I would recommend. I think it's best to have longer more descriptive variable names... that way there's less confusion. I also like prefixing the "infobox" templates with the word Infobox. --Lbstone 16:15, 5 February 2006 (EST)