Help:Adding images
Currently Camera-wiki.org does not host the images that appear within its articles. Technically, adding an image to an article within Camera-wiki.org is fairly simple, and this is explained later within this page. But before considering how to upload an image, you should first think carefully about two kinds of legal/ethical issues: copyright and hosting. This page first deals with these, and then explains how to do what you are certain that you are (and Camera-wiki.org is) permitted to do.
Copyright issues
We start by assuming that all images are copyright, and only allowing their inclusion if the right to do so is unambiguous.
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 any image is copyright in such a way as not to allow insertion unless the image is accompanied by a clear statement that one of the following four applies:
- Copyright of the image has expired (see Copyright expiration), and the image has fallen into the public domain.
- The photographer has released it into the public domain.
- The photographer has released it under the GFDL.
- The photographer has released it under a Creative Commons license.
If there is a Creative Commons licence, then the conditions of the specific license must be met.
Unless either (a) you are certain that an image is in the public domain or (b) you have the explicit consent of the copyright holder, do not take an image to illustrate this site from another site, from a scan of a magazine or even manufacturers' publicity. 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 Camera-wiki.org 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 donated to the public domain by its creator, or image with expired copyright |
| {{fair use}} | for images used under fair use | this practice is discouraged, please follow the link for the details |
Camera-wiki.org will remove images for which ownership and/or copyright cannot be quickly verified. To be sure that an photograph 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, "Aggregation of independent works", of the GFDL). This means that a published image keeps its original licensing status and that your insertion of it within a Camera-wiki.org 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 make the fallacious claim that publication in Camera-wiki.org (or any other wiki) implies GFDL or even public-domain status.
Hosting issues
As noted above, all the images published in Camera-wiki.org's articles are currently hosted by other websites. (An inbuilt image hosting facility may be added later.)
In addition to considerations of copyright (dealt with in the preceding section), the images must be hosted by a person who or organization that explicitly consents to having bandwidth used in this way, and you need to respect the relevant guidelines and restrictions.
One organization that in principle does consent to such use is Flickr. This is free to join and post images to, and actively encourages users to link to its images from elsewhere. Camera-wiki.org has set up its own Flickr group. Adding a picture to this Flickr group implies willingness for the picture to be displayed in Camera-wiki.org, 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. Camera-wiki.org) must be provided with a link back to the relevant Flickr page. Images hosted on Flickr are the lifeblood of Camera-wiki.org. 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 (for this image) looks like:
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/vox/238853569/in/pool-camerawiki http://static.flickr.com/89/238853569_aff436e489_t.jpg]
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 images
Whenever possible, images should be drawn from the "Camerawiki" 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.
We strongly encourage use of the Flickr image template. This ensures that photographer credits and image rights will be presented in a consistent way throughout Camera-wiki.org.
Clicking the right-most tool button above any editing window (the button resembling a photo) will insert the Flickr image template into the page source. Or you may copy the following and paste it at the correct place:
{{Flickr_image
|image_source=
|image=
|image_align=
|image_text=
|image_by=
|image_rights=
}}
Line by line, the attributes of the template are:
- image_source
- full URL of the web page where the image is presented on Flickr. Please use the URL format ending with "/in/pool-camerawiki" (where appropriate) to make it explicit why "all rights reserved" photos appear "with permission."
- image
- full URL of image file to be displayed (typically a .jpg file)
- image_align
- center, right or left
- image_text
- brief caption describing the photo
- image_by
- photographer, author or copyright holder name. For Flickr users it is preferred to use their real name, capitalized normally, when this is publicly available (screen names may change over time).
- image_rights
- the name of the image rights tag applying to the refered image
The image file 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 (500 pixels on the long side) is suitable as the main image for an article, where 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.
The Flickr interface only permits selection and copying of the entire contents of the text box. But you only need the the URL itself: it should start http://... and finish with .jpg. It may be necessary to paste what you've copied into a separate editor (Notepad etc.) window; then select and copy the image file URL alone. Don't include the quotes around the URL. Paste this into the image= field of the template.
A step-by-step tutorial on how to complete the image template fields (including an alternate method for acquiring the .jpg URL) is shown here.
Arranging images
You can use the Flickr image 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=plainlinks align=right
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{{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=center
| 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=center
|image_text=
|image_by= Tim Williams
|image_rights= creative commons
}}
|-
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{{Flickr_image
|image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/timmythesuk/207807909/
|image= http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/207807909_6fcb7dfd5f_m.jpg
|image_align=center
|image_text= Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30
|image_by= Tim Williams
|image_rights= creative commons
}}
|-
|}
Below, this is repeated without the parameters, to copy and paste:
{|class=plainlinks align=right
||
{{Flickr_image
| image_source=
| image=
| image_align= center
| image_text=
| image_by=
| image_rights=
}}
|-
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{{Flickr_image
|image_source=
|image=
|image_align= center
|image_text=
|image_by=
|image_rights=
}}
|-
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{{Flickr_image
|image_source=
|image=
|image_align= center
|image_text=
|image_by=
|image_rights=
}}
|-
|}
The align parameter at the top can take three values: right or left for a stack of images floated to the right or left of the text, and center[1] for images centred in the page. Within each Flickr template, the default image_align= value "center" can be changed to left or right, for a neater appearance if the images aren't all the same width. (Some value must be included in the template or the page may generate invalid XHTML.)
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 images even with the align parameter set to right or left, effectively creating a group of images aligned to the right or left with no floating.
This code, again using the Flickr_image template above, will give a row of three images with a common caption:
{|class=plainlinks align=center
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{{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= center
|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= center
|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= center
|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.</small> {{creative commons}}
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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"[1] in the top line, to place the row on the left or right of the page.
The result of that code is this:
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| This caption is shared between three images of a Zenit 1. Images by Dustin McAmera. (Image rights) | ||||||||
