Template:Pictures in Wikimedia screenshots/doc
This template is intended to ease the placing of additional licensing for Wikimedia screenshots that contains pictures hosted in Commons, inside the {{Information}} template, author
field. The CC licenses require that you must provide the proper authorship and licensing of every element depicted in the screenshot, even if the main subject is not the Wikimedia screenshot itself (eg. browser screenshots).
Notice that if you taken a screenshot of a Wikipedia that allows Fair use and it contains ANY non-free picture, then, you SHOULDN'T upload it to Commons! Please check the pictures depicted in then screenshot before uploading; if a screenshot containing a non-free picture and is really needed, please crop out or remove these non-free elements depicted on it.
Tip: Additionally, you can use the Annotations feature to link to the depicted picture(s).
Usage
{{Pictures_in_Wikimedia_screenshots
|file1 =
|file1-author =
|file1-license =
}}
Template parameters
Parameter | Description | Default | Status | |
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file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 | The Filename of the picture(s) depicted in the Screenshot (with the File: prefix, without the brackets, eg. [[File:Screenshot]] ). You can provide up to 5 files (due to a technical limitations but is enough), that should be provided in numeric order. The first file parameters are required. | empty | required | |
file1-author file2-author file3-author file4-author file5-author | The Author of the picture(s). Please provide, at least, the full name (or the username from the service that the licensor uploaded the file, with link), date of born and death (if apply), and if found, an article at Wikipedia related to the author. | empty | required | |
file1-license file2-license file3-license file4-license file5-license | The licensing used, without any template formating, just in plain-text only (eg. CC-BY-SA/GFDL or PD-textlogo ), with link is possible. In fact, you can place any text here, but you must provide valid licenses found and allowed in Commons. | empty | required |
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: no user group specified
See also
Localization
This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:Pictures_in_Wikimedia_screenshots/layout.
To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:Pictures_in_Wikimedia_screenshots/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang
from en
(or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.
Example using {{Information}} template
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This code:
{{Pictures_in_Wikimedia screenshots |file1=File:Aptitude moo vector.svg |file1-author=[[User:Amitie 10g]] |file1-license=GFDL/CC-BY-SA/GPL |file2=File:Sinn und Form logo.svg |file2-author=[[User:Amitie 10g]] |file2-license=PD-textlogo |file3=File:Compact Disc wordmark.svg |file3-author=Phillips/Sony |file3-license=PD-textlogo }} Will output the following (inside the Summary
This screenshot either does not contain copyright-eligible parts or visuals of copyrighted software, or the author has released it under a free license (which should be indicated beneath this notice), and as such follows the licensing guidelines for screenshots of Wikimedia Commons. You may use it freely according to its particular license. Free software license:
Note: if the screenshot shows any work that is not a direct result of the program code itself, such as a text or graphics that are not part of the program, the license for that work must be indicated separately.
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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