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See Wikipedia:Template messages, for a table listing all Template Messages.

Information Template (for Images etc.)

{{Information
|Description =
|Source =
|Date =
|Author =
|Permission =
|other_versions =
}}

See also Template:Information

File information

Description	The Shimon Yanowitz Tower, is a Minimal Tower and a Minimal Structure, in the sense that any Wire frame model of it lies entirely on segments of orthogonal doubly ruled, Minimal Surfaces above the R2 Plane (the E2 Euclidean Space). In fact, it can be made using nothing but a mesh of lighweight, orthogonal staright wires or strings and support beams. Conversely, it is a 3-dimensional Manifold (referred to as a 2-manifold), which is a piecewise Riemannian manifold, and can be made, or covered by such segments of orthogonal doubly ruled, Minimal Surfaces. Although they appear to be curved, their curvature, as well as their tensile stress and surface energy are, in fact, all zero everywhere on them (except for minimal gravitational weight). Thus, each segment, as well as the entire Tower can be fully covered, or made by nothing more than a Soap Bubble!
Source	Original Work by Shimon D. Yanowitz
Date	2007-01-08
Author	Shimon D. Yanowitz
Permission (Reusing this file)	See Below
Other versions	None

Syntax description

• Description: Description of the content, (historical) background, and in the case of scientific data, a brief scientific analysis of the media file.

• Source: Use "Own work" for an original media file. Otherwise, provide the website (with both a link to the page embedding the file and a direct link to the file itself), catalog number, name of institution, book source, etc.

• Date: Date of creation, or date of publication.

• Author: Author(s) of the image. If no individual person known use the name of the institution(s) that released the file.

• Permission: Short description of the permission for use granted by the copyright holder. In the case of general permission (e.g. Public Domain), simply describe the media file's copyright status. Note that the media file must still be tagged with the appropriate license template! Select a copyright tag from Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/All. Don't forget to put the curly brackets around the tag!: {{}}

• other_versions (optional): Links to and brief descriptions of other versions of this image.

Image Tag

[[Image:{name}
|{type}
|{location}
|{size}|{upright}
|{border}
|{caption}
]]

See also Wikipedia:Extended image syntax

Syntax description

Type

'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. Causes image to be displayed with specific formatting (see below).

Location

'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. Defaults to 'right'.

Size

{width}px or {width}x{height}px, scales the image to be no greater than the given width and height, keeping its aspect ratio.

Upright

for use only on images that are taller than they are wide. This scales the image differently, considering both width and height instead of only width.

Border

adds a border around the image

Caption

Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is assumed to be caption text.

The option none can be used to have thumbnails without left- or right-alignment. This is probably most useful for tables. This is an example:

How to use none
London's palaces
Palace of Westminster	From the Thames	[[Image:Westminstpalace.jpg|thumb|none|100px|From the Thames]]
Buckingham Palace	Queen's home	[[Image:Buckingham palace Copyright2003KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|none|100px|Queen's home]]

Additional caption formatting options are possible.

[[Image:Westminstpalace.jpg|right|thumbnail|<div align="center">This is <span style="color: green">the </span><br /> [[Palace of Westminster]]<br /> '''in <span style="color: red">London</span>'''</div>]]

This is the
Palace of Westminster
in London

Cancelling floating-around-image mode

After having had an image floating next to text, putting further text below it and again using the full width can be done with the following markup. This blocks an image from appearing next to the material following this markup, possibly due to aesthetic reasons or a change in topics.

<br style="clear:both" />

For legacy align="right" (etc.) floating this isn't good enough; legacy browsers would ignore inline CSS. To cancel floating under all conditions the following markup (valid XHTML 1.0 transitional) works:

<br clear="all" />

The same code can be issued by using template {{Clr}} or {{-}} in certain namespaces (En, meta).

Linking to the image description page

If you want to make a link to the description page for an image, use a leading colon before "image:" in an intra-wiki link, like this: [[:image:STS-32 crew.jpg|STS-32 crew]] which yields: STS-32 crew

Image galleries

See Help:Images and other uploaded files

Source code
<gallery Caption="example"> Image:Example.png Image:Example.png|New syntax allows for Image:Example.png|easy production of Image:Example.png|image galleries. Image:Example.png Image:Example.png </gallery>

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