Project:Licenses

A feature of MediaWiki allows the Special:Upload Page to streamline licensing of images. Wikipedia's Upload Page has a Licensing drop down box below image summary. This feature is turned off in default MediaWiki. To turn this feature on a sysop needs to edit Licenses in the Mediawiki namespace. Example: MediaWiki:Licenses

Licenses expects a certain format in a wiki list.

*subst:license 1|license 2|License text
* Header 1:
** cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution ShareAlike 2.5

Line 1 will produce "License text" and substitute the license 1 template in the image page and transclude license 2.
Line 2 will show a greyed out header with text "Header 1:"
Line 3 will produce "Attribution ShareAlike 2.5" and transclude template cc-by-sa-2.5 on the image page.

For detailed real world example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses

Examples

• Unknown|I don't know exactly
• Free licenses:
  • PD|PD: public domain
  • CC-by-sa-2.5|Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5
  • GFDL|GFDL: GNU Free Documentation License
  • GPL|GPL: GNU General Public License
  • LGPL|LGPL: GNU Lesser General Public License
• Non-free license (exception):
  • CopyrightByWikimedia|Wikimedia images