Commons:Infobox templates
Files on Commons use a variety of infoboxes to display file metadata, with different template customized for different types of files. Infoboxes serve several purposes, like organizing the data and displaying it using a unified look, adding machine-readable metadata, and localizing (translating) the field names to the language of the viewer. The main infoboxes which are meant to be used primarily in the file namespace are:
- {{Information}} – default template meant especially for photographs created by users.
- {{Artwork}} – for paintings, artworks and artifacts held by museums and other GLAM institutions
- {{Photograph}} – for photographs held by museums and other GLAM institutions
- {{Art photo}} – for photographs of artworks with more fields for photographer metadata
- {{Book}} – for books
- {{Map}} – for maps
- {{Musical work}} – for music files
There are also many less frequently used templates which were written based on one of the main infobox templates:
- {{Information2}} – {{Information}} with extra "location" field
- {{COAInformation}} – for coat of arms files
- {{Bus-Information}} – for information about buses
- {{Infobox aircraft image}} – for information about aircraft
- {{Spoken article}} – for audio files of people reading wikipedia articles
- {{Specimen}} – for images of biological specimens with known scientific names
Infobox fields
[edit]The table below compares the fields of main infobox templates, showing the parameter names used by each template that goes with the field in the leftmost column (last verified on 3 August 2013). Some parameter names have several alternatives, for example using upper and lower case, or using underscores or spaces in case of multi-word parameters. In a few cases, alternative parameter names are different words. Those are listed on separate lines.
| Field text (link to i18n page) |
{{Information}} | {{Artwork}} | {{Photograph}} | {{Art photo}} | {{Book}} | {{Map}} | {{Musical work}} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | |||||||
| Author | author | author | author | author | |||
| Photographer | photographer | photographer author |
photographer | ||||
| Artist | artist | artist | |||||
| Editor | editor | ||||||
| Translator | translator | ||||||
| Illustrator | illustrator | ||||||
| Composer | composer | ||||||
| Lyricist | lyrics writer | ||||||
| Performance artist | performer | ||||||
| Date | |||||||
| Date | date | date year |
date year |
date photo date |
date | ||
| Year of publication | date | print date | |||||
| Composition date | composition date | ||||||
| Performance date | performance date | ||||||
| Date depicted | map date | ||||||
| Description | |||||||
| Original caption | original description | ||||||
| Description | description | description | description | description photo description |
description | description | description |
| Title Title |
title | title | title | title | title | title | |
| Subtitle | subtitle | ||||||
| Series title | series title | ||||||
| Object type | object type | object type | |||||
| Depicted people | depicted people | depicted people | |||||
| Depicted place | depicted place | depicted place | |||||
| Medium | medium technique |
medium technique |
medium | medium technique |
|||
| Dimensions | dimentions size |
dimentions size |
dimentions | dimentions size |
|||
| Archival data | |||||||
| Current location | institution gallery museum |
institution gallery |
institution gallery |
institution gallery |
institution | ||
| location/department | department | location | department | ||||
| References | references | references | references | references | references | ||
| Place of discovery | place of discovery | place of discovery | |||||
| Place of creation | place of creation | place of creation | |||||
| Object history | object history | object history | |||||
| Exhibition history | exhibition history | exchibition history | |||||
| Credit line | credit line | credit line | |||||
| Inscriptions | inscriptions | inscriptions | inscriptions | inscriptions | |||
| Notes | notes | notes | notes | notes | |||
| Accession number | accession number ID |
accession number ID |
accession number ID |
accession number ID |
accession number ID URI |
||
| Record ID | record ID | ||||||
| Bibliographic data | |||||||
| Volume | volume | ||||||
| Edition | edition | ||||||
| Authority file | ISBN, LCCN, OCLC | ISBN, LCCN, OCLC, BNF | |||||
| Publisher | publisher | publisher | |||||
| Printer | printer | printer | |||||
| Place of publication | city | ||||||
| Language | language | language | |||||
| Page overview | pageoverview | ||||||
| Geodata | |||||||
| Map legend | legend | ||||||
| Map location | location | ||||||
| Map projection | projection | ||||||
| Map scale | scale | ||||||
| Heading | heading | ||||||
| Bounding box | latitude longitude |
||||||
| Map set / atlas | set | ||||||
| Map sheet | sheet | ||||||
| Map type | type | ||||||
| Source/License | |||||||
| Source/Photographer | source | source | |||||
| Source | source | source_ | source | source | source | source | source |
| Permission | permission | permission | permission | artwork license photo license |
permission/license | permission/license | permission |
| Other versions | other versions | other versions | other versions | other versions | other versions | other versions | other versions |
| Camera location | camera coord | ||||||