Wikiup:Infobox templates

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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 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 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

The table below compares the fields of main infobox templates, showing the parameter names used by each template that goes with the field on the left most colum (last verified on ). Some parameter names have several alternatives, for example using upper and lower case, or using underscores or spaces in case of multi-word parameter. In few cases alternative parameter names are different words. Those are listed in separate lines.

Field text (link to i18n page)	{{Information}}	{{Artwork}}	{{Photograph}}	{{Art photo}}	{{Book}}	{{Map}}	{{Musical work}}
People
⧼wm-license-information-author⧽	author	author			author	author
{{autotranslate|photographer|Occupation}}		photographer	photographer author	photographer
⧼wm-license-artwork-artist⧽		artist		artist
⧼wm-license-book-editor⧽					editor
⧼wm-license-book-translator⧽					translator
⧼wm-license-book-illustrator⧽					illustrator
{{autotranslate|composer|Occupation}}							composer
							lyrics writer
{{autotranslate|performing artist|Occupation}}							performer
Date
⧼wm-license-information-date⧽	date	date year	date year	date photo date		date
⧼wm-license-book-year-of-publication⧽					date	print date
							composition date
							performance date
						map date
Description
			original description
⧼wm-license-information-description⧽	description	description	description	description photo description	description	description	description
⧼wm-license-artwork-title⧽ ⧼wm-license-book-title⧽		title	title	title	title	title	title
⧼wm-license-book-subtitle⧽					subtitle
⧼wm-license-book-series-title⧽					series title
		object type		object type
		depicted people	depicted people
		depicted place	depicted place
⧼wm-license-artwork-medium⧽		medium technique	medium technique	medium		medium technique
⧼wm-license-artwork-dimensions⧽		dimentions size	dimentions size	dimentions		dimentions size
Archival data
⧼wm-license-artwork-current-location⧽		institution gallery museum	institution gallery	institution gallery	institution gallery	institution
		location/department	department	location	department
⧼wm-license-artwork-references⧽		references	references	references	references		references
		place of discovery		place of discovery
		place of creation		place of creation
⧼wm-license-artwork-object-history⧽		object history		object history
		exhibition history		exchibition history
⧼wm-license-artwork-credit-line⧽		credit line		credit line
⧼Wm-license-artwork-inscriptions⧽		inscriptions	inscriptions	inscriptions		inscriptions
⧼wm-license-artwork-notes⧽		notes		notes		notes	notes
⧼wm-license-artwork-id⧽		accession number ID	accession number ID	accession number ID	accession number ID	accession number ID URI
							record ID
Bibliographic data
⧼wm-license-book-volume⧽					volume
⧼wm-license-book-edition⧽					edition
					ISBN, LCCN, OCLC	ISBN, LCCN, OCLC, BNF
⧼wm-license-book-publisher⧽					publisher	publisher
⧼wm-license-book-printer⧽					printer	printer
⧼wm-license-book-place-of-publication⧽					city
⧼wm-license-book-language⧽					language	language
⧼wm-license-book-page-overview⧽					pageoverview
Geodata
						legend
						location
						projection
						scale
						heading
						latitude longitude
						set
						sheet
						type
Source/License
⧼wm-license-artwork-source⧽		source			source
⧼wm-license-information-source⧽	source	source_	source	source	source	source	source
⧼wm-license-information-permission⧽	permission	permission	permission	artwork license photo license	permission/license	permission/license	permission
⧼wm-license-information-other-versions⧽	other versions	other versions	other versions	other versions	other versions	other versions	other versions
Kameraposition			camera coord

See also

• Commons:Multilingual tags
• Category:Media missing infobox template