User:Koreller/Images
This page is a documentation about the management of images that are locally hosted on the OSM wiki. This page can also serve as a toolkit and templates useful for this management.
Starting point
The images on the wiki are imported without asking for any particular information from the user who imports them. He is therefore not asked to make sure that it respects the conditions to be hosted on the wiki nor if it respects the copyright.
On the other hand, the rather modest number of images on the wiki (about 20 000-30 000 files) makes the management of image rights a manageable issue without significant means.
Observations and approach
The user User:Mateusz Konieczny/notify uploaders has recently taken up the issue of missing licenses on the OSM Wiki images. He has notified many uploaders of files whose license is unclear or needs to be explained.
Tools
The user User:Mateusz Konieczny has created the bot User:MissingImageInfoBot
Common code for images
I think it's best to use the code structure that exists on the Commons image bank, as its management has been proven by a community of volunteers to specifically address the same issues but on much larger scales (82,602,463 files on Commons).
== {{int:filedesc}} ==
{{Information
| description =
| date =
| source =
| author =
| permission =
| other_versions =
}}
== {{int:license-header}} ==
<!-- Template for the license -->
[[Category:]]
- Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V
== {{int:filedesc}} ==
{{Information
| description =
| date =
| source = {{own}}
| author = [[User:|]]
| permission =
| other_versions =
}}
== {{int:license-header}} ==
License template list
- Wiki:Media file license chart — Category:Media without a license — Category:Media license templates
- {{Own}}
- {{CC0}}