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Adding images in Vinismo is essential to the success of our guide. Images give life to our texts, and most importantly, they make more people read them.
However, the process of adding images can be confusing for newcomers.
What kind of images should be added to Vinismo? How are they inserted into articles? What kind of information must be found on image description pages? This article should answer all these questions. Don't forget to bookmark it or print it for future reference!
edit What kind of images should I add?
In Vinismo, images are used to illustrate the subject at hand, whether it's a picture of a grape in a varietal page, a picture of a vineyard in an appellation page, pictures of a winery in a winery page, etc.
A certain level of abstraction is permitted, even encouraged to avoid visual redundancy. In other words, all vineyards, grapes and bottles tend to look the same everywhere, so feel free to choose other aspects and angles relevant to the subject.
For example, an article about a small French appellation could include a picture of a typical house of the region, or a statue celebrating the tradition of winemaking in the closest village. Wine is not only about drinking, it's also about discovering culture and history.
edit How do I add an image and insert it in a page?
First, click on Upload image in the left menu. You'll be brought to a form, where you can browse for the image on your computer, change its filename, add a description, then add it.
The "summary" field is very important. Don't leave it empty. It should be used to write a short caption and add links to the original file and its author (using external links).
You must also choose a license for your image in the "Licensing" drop-down list. You can later change your choice by replacing it by the relevant tag. They are all listed on this page and in the table below.
Once your image has been uploaded, copy its title (it should read something like "Image:my image.jpg") then paste it in your article following the instructions given on this page.
Note that unlike other MediaWiki-based websites (such as Wikipedia), Vinismo uses the same image repository for all linguistic versions. An image uploaded from the French version of Vinismo can be used in the English Vinismo, and vice-versa. To make this work, we created a special Vinismo subdomain called Common, where all images are stored.
edit What images can I legally add to Vinismo?
The first step when choosing an image for Vinismo is to make sure it is not copyrighted to someone else. The use of copyrighted images in Vinismo is forbidden, except for wine labels (see Wine labels and fair use for details). If you don't know whether an image is copyrighted, it probably means that it is. When in doubt, leave it out!
Vinismo uses a Copyleft license, which applies to all of its contents. Every image added to Vinismo must be released under our license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution are also accepted because they are compatible with our licence. Public Domain images are also accepted.
We don't accept images licensed under GFDL, which is the case for most images in Wikipedia. However, if an image from Wikipedia is licensed under GFDL and Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike, it can be used in Vinismo under the principle of dual licensing.
Here's a summary:
| If the image license is... | Then you... |
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Unknown (no licensing info available) | CAN'T use it in Vinismo because it's considered as Copyright by default. |
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Copyright | CAN'T use it in Vinismo, except for wine labels (see Wine labels and fair use for details). |
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GNU Free Documentation License (or GFDL) | CAN'T use it in Vinismo, unless it is also licensed under CC-BY-SA or CC-BY (see Dual licensing for details). The tag for this license is {{GFDL}}. |
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Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (or CC-BY-SA) | CAN and SHOULD use it in Vinismo, because it's the exact same license as our site. The tag for this license is {{CC-BY-SA}}. |
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Creative Commons Attribution (or CC-BY) | CAN use it in Vinismo, because it's compatible with the license of our site. The tag for this license is {{CC-BY}}. |
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Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (or CC-BY-NC) | CAN'T use it in Vinismo. |
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Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike (or CC-BY-NC-SA) | CAN'T use it in Vinismo. |
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Creative Commons Attribution No Derivative Works (or CC-BY-ND) | CAN'T use it in Vinismo. |
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Public Domain | CAN use it in Vinismo. Tags for this license are {{PD}} (generic public domain), {{PD-self}} (released by the author), {{PD-old}} (copyright has expired), or {{PD}} (produced by a US Federal Government employee). |
In any case, don't forget to mention the original source and author(s) of the image in the image description page. It's not only required by our license, but it's also a good way to show our appreciation and express gratitude for the work of others.
edit Where can I find license-compatible images on the Web?
If you don't travel much and don't have the opportunity to take wine pictures yourself, you can search the Web for images of wine regions, appellations, producers, grapes etc.
Here are two good places to start:
- Mayflower Search Tool for Wikimedia Commons - This should give you lots of pictures with CC-BY or CC-SA license.
- Flickr - To find Vinismo-compatible pictures, click first on Advanced Search, then activate these two options (you'll have to repeat these steps for every new search):
- "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos"
- "Find content to use commercially"
edit Minimal use of images
Wine enthusiasts may be using Vinismo from networks with very low bandwidth. So image use in articles should be kept at the minimum necessary.
This doesn't mean that 0 images is preferred to 1 image, but that no more images than are necessary to get across a point or impression should be used. 14 different photos of a winegrape don't really help any more than one photo does. Everything doesn't need to be memorialized with an image.
edit Internal images
Images used in Vinismo articles should be uploaded to the Vinismo site. External images should not be used; they can be linked to, however.
For help on how to upload files to Vinismo, see Help:Uploading files.
edit Using Wikimedia images
Many images from the Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia come with a GFDL license and thus not compatible with Vinismo.
However, Wikimedia contributors can choose to dual-license their work under Attribution-ShareAlike, which is compatible, so check the image data and the uploader's User page for a possible dual-license note. At the moment you cannot link images directly from Commons, instead you have to upload the files to Vinismo, too.
edit Image formats
Images should be in one of the following formats:
- JPEG - for photographs
- PNG - for text, maps, or computer-generated images
- SVG - for source of maps or other diagrams
The GIF format is deprecated. It is technically inferior to PNG, which has about the same purpose. See [1] for details.
edit Image sizes
Uploading high-quality source images is encouraged. Images should be less than 4Mb total size, and preferably less than 2Mb.
Pixel dimensions should be 1536x2048 (3 megapixels) or smaller, as this is enough for a 6"x4.5" print at 300 DPI (half a book page). When displayed, pictures can be automatically scaled to smaller thumbnails; see Help:Images for details.
edit Image file names
Image file names should be somewhat meaningful. Many digital cameras give images names like "IMG00001.JPG". You should try to rename these files to something like "vineyard_in_Napa_Valley.jpg", or "spanish_winery.jpg", or whatever. Use descriptive names with full words and underscores ("_") between the words, and don't use non-English (i.e., non-ASCII) accents.
This makes it easier for other people to include the image in articles, and it keeps us from having name clashes.
Leave the image size out of the image file name. The image may be reformatted in the future. It can be confusing to have a "Rhone_Valley_640x480.jpg" that's actually 250 pixels across.
edit People in photos
In general, photos of people will be removed from Vinismo. There are two reasons for this policy:
- A photo of a wine label is useful for wine enthusiasts; a photo of your girlfriend in a funny hat with the bottle in her hand is not. In general, we don't really want pictures of people in Vinismo. Some exceptions are possible, such as typical wine-related scenes of a wine region or activities related to the making of a wine.
- In the United States and elsewhere human beings have privacy rights, that is, a right to control the use of their own image, even if they didn't create the image. Image creators need to get authorization from human subjects of photos to publish the images. See this page for a description of why and when a model release is required. A general rule of thumb is that if an image contains a subject that is identifiable, a model release is needed.
One exception to this rule is a photo of the uploader that is used only on the uploader's user page. If you are uploading a photo of yourself and there are no other recognizable people in the image please put a comment on the image page indicating that the picture is of you, you are releasing it under the terms of the CC-SA license, and that it is for use on your user page.
edit Reproduction in other media
One of Vinismo's goals is to have Vinismo articles useful as printed pages. Use of other media files — like digital sound clips or video images — is therefore discouraged.
