Template:Wikimedia-screenshot/sandbox
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This is a screenshot of a web page of a Wikimedia Foundation project. Text of Wikimedia projects (except for Wikinews[1] and parts of Wikidata[2]) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license and may additionally be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (Version 1.2, 1.3, or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts), and are subject to terms of use. The MediaWiki software itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Any other media in this image may be subject to other terms. Logos (if they appear in this screenshot) of the Wikimedia Foundation are Wikimedia trademarks and are subject to Trademark policy. Note on licenses: Please note that the GPL is for software and its derivatives and the GFDL is for text documentations or other forms of text and their derivatives. This means that the interface design of Wikipedia and all other portions of the MediaWiki software are licensed under the GPL. The actual contents of Wikipedia are licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License and in some cases also with the GFDL. As such, portions of this screenshot may be licensed under two or three separate licenses. The GPL and GFDL are not the same license; they are only connected through the Free Software Foundation, the creator of the licenses.
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- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. |
This template will add CC BY-SA 3.0 (and a GFDL 1.2 or later) license to a screenshot of a Wikimedia project (e.g., Wikipedia). The image is added to categories CC-BY-SA-3.0, GFDL, GPL, and Wikimedia screenshots, and a (hidden) machine readable license indicates "screenshot".
Also, if the screenshot contains any pictures depicted there, you Should credit them by adding the link to the file and its license (as an alternative, you can credit them in the "Source" section at the "Information" template).
Notice that if you taken a screenshot of any Wikipedia that allows Fair use, and the screenshot contains any non-free picture depicted (uploaded locally and tagged as Fair use), you shouldn't upload the screenshot to Commons, even if the main subject is the browser or tool rather than the Wikipedia screenshot itself.
Usage
{{Wikimedia screenshot |logo= |commons-file1= |commons-file-license1= }}
Template parameters
Parameter | Description | Default | Status | |
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logo | logo=no to suppress the Wikimedia logo (if the screenhsot does not contain any Wikimedia ones) | empty | optional | |
commons-file1 commons-file2 commons-file3 commons-file4 commons-file5 | If the screenshot contains one or more files, input each of them in every commons-filesX parameter (this template accepts up to 4 files due to technical limitations), with the prefix File: without the double brackets ([[<file>]] ). | empty | optional | |
commons-file-license1 commons-file-license2 commons-file-license3 commons-file-license5 | The license for each commons-fileX , in order. | empty | optional |
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: no user group specified
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{{Wikimedia-screenshot}} |
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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{{Wikimedia-screenshot|logo=no}} |
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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This template relies on {{Autotranslate}} for i18n and {{GNU-Layout}} for license tracking.