Help:Adding images
Adding an image to Camerapedia is as simple as adding the url for the image to the wiki text. However, you should be careful about two matters:
- Do you have the right to make use of this image?
- Where is the image hosted? What are the corresponding rules?
Copyright issues
If you are the copyright holder of the image, you can of course insert it into Camerapedia.
If you are not the copyright holder, you must assume that the image is copyright in such a way as not to allow this unless it 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 licence provided that you respect the full terms of the licence accompanying the image.
Without the explicit consent of the copyright holder, do not take images to illustrate Camerapedia from other sites, scanned magazines 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.
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.
Hosting issues
All the images published in Camerapedia are currently hosted by an external website. There is no inbuilt image hosting facility in Camerapedia for the moment.
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 corresponding guidelines and restrictions.
One of these organizations is Flickr, that 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 Camerapedia. To add a picture to this Flickr group means that you accept to see this picture displayed in Camerapedia, whether the actual insertion in a Camerapedia page is made by you or by another contributor. We encourage you to take photos of your own camera gear and collections and post the images to this Flickr group.
The Flickr guidelines page states that each picture hardlinked in another site must be provided with a link back to the relevant Flickr page. To respect this, you must insert the Flickr images in the following way:
[URL_of_the_Flickr_page_where_the_image_appears URL_of_the_Flickr_hosted_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 Camerapedia 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 "all sizes" and selecting the image size appropriate to post on Camerapedia.
