Help:Adding images

Adding an image to Camera-wiki is as simple as adding the URL for the image to the wiki text. However, you should be careful about two areas:

1. The rights to use the image
2. The hosting of the image

Copyright issues

If you are the copyright holder of the image, you can of course insert it into the wiki.

If you are not the copyright holder, you must assume that the image is copyright in such a way as not to allow insertion unless the image is accompanied by a clear statement saying the copyright holder either has released it into the public domain or has released it under the GFDL. You may also insert images released under a Creative Commons license provided that you respect the full terms of the license accompanying the image.

Without the explicit consent of the copyright holder, do not take images to illustrate this site from other sites, scanned magazines or even manufacturers' publicity, unless you are certain that this material has fallen into public domain. If you do have this explicit consent, state this clearly on the discussion page of the article in question or in the image's Flickr page if it is hosted there.

A set of "image rights" tags is provided to quickly identify the status of an image. These are of considerable help for wiki administrators and for potential redistributors, and should be added to the picture caption as follows:
{{creative commons}}	for images licensed under Creative Commons	check license on Flickr before any re-use
{{non-commercial}}	for images licensed under Creative Commons	similar, but explicitly non-commercial
{{commercial}}	for images licensed under Creative Commons	similar, check license on Flickr before any commercial re-use
{{with permission}}	for images used with permission of the copyright owner	including implicit permission for images given into the wiki project's Flickr pool when the copyright holder got notice of that implication
{{public domain}}	for images in public domain	image granted as public domain by the one who made it, or image with expired copyright
{{fair use}}	for images used under fair use	this practice is discouraged, please follow the link for the details
We will remove images for which ownership and/or copyright cannot be quickly verified. To be sure that an image of a camera, etc., is not copyrighted, simply take a photograph of it yourself.

The interpretation that is currently given in the Copyrights page is that the images are not part of the wiki's content and are agglomerated documents regarding the GFDL (see section 7 of the GFDL). This means that a published image keeps its original licensing status and that your insertion of it within a wiki page does not constitute a claim that the image was previously released under GFDL, that the image is in the public domain, or that the image is thereby released under GFDL. Please note however that this interpretation might be debatable and that the careless or unscrupulous may ignorantly or willfully claim that publication in this wiki proves GFDL or even public-domain status.

Hosting issues

All the images published in Camera-wiki's articles are currently hosted by other websites. An inbuilt image hosting facility in may be added later.

The images must be hosted by a person or organization explicitly consenting to having bandwidth used in this way, and you need to respect the relevant guidelines and restrictions.

One of these organizations is Flickr. This is free to join and post images to and actively encourages users to link to its images from elsewhere. We have set up a Flickr group for Camera-wiki. To add a picture to this Flickr group implies willingness for the picture to be displayed in Camera-wiki, whether the actual insertion in a page is made by you or by another contributor. We encourage you to take photos of your own camera gear and (with their permission) that of your friends, and to post the images to this Flickr group.

The Flickr guidelines page states that each picture hardlinked from another site (e.g. this wiki) must be provided with a link back to the relevant Flickr page. Images hosted on Flickr are the lifeblood of Camera-wiki. Thus, it is vital that we respect Flickr's requirements. At a minimum, Flickr images should be included in the following way:

[URL_of_the_Flickr_page_where_the_image_appears URL_of_the_Flickr_hosted_image]

An example looks like:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/vox/238853569/in/pool-camerawiki http://static.flickr.com/89/238853569_aff436e489_t.jpg] for this image.

This way a click on the image will directly take the reader to the corresponding Flickr page, and it will be easier to check that the use of this image in this wiki is allowed. The first URL mentioned is simply the address of the Flickr page where this image appears; while you can obtain the second URL in Flickr by clicking on "Share this," expanding "Grab the HTML/BBCode" for the preferred size and selecting just the img src= URL.

Flickr issues

Whenever possible, images should be drawn from the Camera-wiki Flickr pool, as permissions are guaranteed there. Photos may be drawn from other Flickr pools such as Camerapedia and Your camera collection !, Camera Junkie (G.A.S.) and so forth — but only if the specific image is uploaded under a Creative Commons license.

For ease of image usage the Flickr image template can help:

Copy the following and paste it at the correct place in the camera page to insert an image from Flickr:

{{Flickr_image
|image_source= 
|image= 
|image_align= 
|image_text= 
|image_by= 
|image_rights= 
}}

meaning of the template-attributes:

image_source

full URL of web page where the image is presented at Flickr

image

full URL of image (JPEG or GIF format)

image_align

center, right or left

image_text

brief explanation

image_by

photographer, author or copyright holder (optional)

image_rights

the name of the image rights tag applying to the refered image (optional)

The image URL (for the image= entry) can be found by opening the Share this box on the image's Flickr page. Next, click Grab the HTML/BBCode. Select what size you want the image to appear in the wiki article: medium is the size that the Flickr page shows; it's suitable for the main image for an article, when it will dominate the top of the page. The small size is often better if there will be more than one image on the page. Finally, copy the URL from the box; when you click in the box, it will automatically select evrything in there. You only need the the URL itself: it should start http://... and finish with .jpg. Don't include the quotes around the URL. Paste that to the image= entry in the template.

Arranging images

You can use this template within others to achieve an arrangement of images. You can copy the code from an existing page you think looks good. This one creates a vertical column of three Flickr images, floated at the right of the text.

{|class=floatright plainlinks
||
 {{Flickr_image
 | image_source=http://www.flickr.com/photos/marty4650/2375248051/in/pool-camerawiki
 | image=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/2375248051_726f89c993_m.jpg
 | image_align=
 | image_text= 
 | image_by=Marty
 | image_rights= With permission
 }}
 |-
 ||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/timmythesuk/207807911/
 |image= http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/207807911_2b4e4b9e4d_m.jpg
 |image_align= 
 |image_text= 
 |image_by= Tim Williams
 |image_rights= creative commons
 }}
 |-
 ||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/timmythesuk/207807909/
 |image= http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/207807909_6fcb7dfd5f_m.jpg
 |image_align= 
 |image_text= Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30
 |image_by= Tim Williams
 |image_rights= creative commons
 }}
 |-
 |}

Here, that's repeated without the parameters, to copy and paste:

{|class=floatright plainlinks
||
 {{Flickr_image
 | image_source=
 | image=
 | image_align=
 | image_text=
 | image_by=
 | image_rights=
 }}
 |-
 ||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source=
 |image=
 |image_align=
 |image_text=
 |image_by=
 |image_rights=
 }}
 |-
 ||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source=
 |image=
 |image_align=
 |image_text=
 |image_by=
 |image_rights=
 }}
 |-
 |}

Of course, if you replace floatright with floatleft, the stack of images is floated to the left of the text. There's usually no need to specify the image_align parameter for each image; it may help to use it if the images aren't all the same width. If you don't specify the image_text, image_by and image_rights parameters, they won't appear. In some cases, you might want to fill these in just for the last image, if one caption is appropriate for all the images. This may make a neater appearance; however if, as in the example above, the images are under a Creative Commons licence with the 'By' (attribution) condition, the image_by and image_rights are required to be present under each image: check what licence has been used.

Note that if there's a {{Br}} break in the text of the article, the text after the break will restart below the level of the floated group of images.

This code, again using the Flickr_image template above, will give a row of three images with a common caption:

{|class=plainlinks align="center"
||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/century_graphic/5486260029/in/pool-camerawiki
 |image= http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5486260029_bdb32b4727_m.jpg
 |image_align= 
 |image_text= 
 |image_by= 
 |image_rights= 
 }}
 ||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/century_graphic/5486263919/in/pool-camerawiki
 |image= http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5134/5486263919_40fb9cc6d3_m.jpg
 |image_align= 
 |image_text= 
 |image_by= 
 |image_rights= 
 }}
 ||
 {{Flickr_image
 |image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/century_graphic/5486864606/in/pool-camerawiki
 |image= http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/5486864606_3da76eac14_m.jpg
 |image_align= 
 |image_text= 
 |image_by= 
 |image_rights= 
 }}
 |-
 |colspan=3 align="center"|This caption is shared between three images of a Zenit 1. <small>Images by Dustin McAmera. {{creative commons}}</small> 
|}

This arrangement could certainly be achieved with less code, but it has the advantage of clarity. You probably don't have to include the image_text, image_by and image_rights lines for each image if you're going to address all of these in one common caption. However, you might want to make a row of three images by different owners; you can still put a common caption under the row, but you could fill in each image's image_by and image_rights parameter separately. Be careful about image rights and attribution when mixing images from more than one source. Of course, this code can be adjusted to include a different number of images by inserting extra copies of the Flickr_image template (and changing the number after colspan=..). You might choose to replace align = "center" in the top line, to place the row on the left or right of the page.

The result of that code is this:

This caption is shared between three images of a Zenit 1. Images by Dustin McAmera. (Image rights)