Overview
This guide is dedicated to understanding this site's rules regarding media posted to the site, which types of copyrights are allowed on the site as a whole, and where to find compliant media!
For help using your own media in pages (uploading, adding your own licensees, archiving, etc), please visit the Using Original Media Guide page!
If you're looking for ready-to-use code snippets, visit the Code Snippet page.
If you have additional questions, please feel free to ask for help; either via the
Image Help forum or the ADR Discord.
As a general rule, no media containing the following is allowed:
- Real-world images of animal abuse
- Real-world images of gore/crime scenes
- Real-world images of pornography
- Graphic depictions of extreme real-world violence
- Any material that can be otherwise categorized as illegal
Use of, or providing off-site links to, this content, will result in an immediate ban. Please note that media may be deemed inappropriate at the discretion of staff, and your page may be locked for a period of time before concerns are resolved; either via replacement, censoring, or removal of the inappropriate content.
Depictions and discussions of mature content and topics are allowed, so long as a content warning is displayed at the top of your page.
Content warning example:
WARNING!
This page contains NSFW/NSFL content.
Viewer discretion is advised.
Content Warning Component:
[[include component:warning-box]]
Simply paste the above component at the top of your article, and you're good to go!
Adding a Licensing/Citation Box
While not all media requires attribution to be used as part of it's copyright, it's still important for linking back to an image's original source. Even if your page does not include outside media and is made up entirely of original text, you still need a license box on your page so others know who and what to attribute when creating fan art, derivatives, or simply referencing your page as a whole.
Licensing and Citation Box Example example:
Modifiable code snippet:
[[collapsible show="+ Licensing/Citation" hide="- Licensing/Citation"]]
Cite this page as:
[[div class="licensebox]]
"______" by _______, from the Anomaly Data Room Wiki.
**Source:**
**Licensed under:** [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA 3.0].
[[/div]]
[[div class="imagelicensebox"]]
**Filename:**
**Name:**
**Author:**
**License:**
**Source:**
[[/div]]
[[/div]]
[[/collapsible]]
And now, you should be able to modify this code snippet to fit your needs! Simply fill out the blank spots with the appropriate information (as seen in the first example), place the code after your "wikiwalk-nav-footer", and you're good to go!
This code snippet works without the use of site-specific components, so it can be styled with CSS, modified, and reworked to fit your needs; even outside of Wikidot!
If you're having trouble getting your code snippet to work, or you just aren't sure about something, feel free to ask a question in the Coding Forum, or in the ADR Discord. Check the bottom of this page to see the code in action!
Need to credit multiple people or need a different variation? Visit the Code Snippet page!
But, I Don't Like Code!
If the code snippets above seem too complex (or you simply don't want to use it), an alternative way to attribute media used in your article is by making a discussion on your own page with the following:
- A link to the media's source (e.g the origin website, a Youtube video url, etc)
- The author's name/pseudonym/handle
- The license the media is released under.
If it's a derivative work, you must also include the license that you are releasing the derivative under if it isn't CC BY-SA 3.03. Generally, you can follow the format shown above in the license box example.
Compatible Copyright Types
This site exists under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License, and it's important that any content uploaded here is compatible with this.
Compliant/Allowed:
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Free Art License
- All versions CC BY
- Public Domain
- CC0
- CC 1.0
- Original artwork/photography that complies with the above copyrights
Non-compliant/Not Allowed:
- Copyrighted images
- CC BY-SA 1.0
- CC licenses that include NC or ND
- Any piece of media that does not have a definitive/identifiable source
- Any piece of media that doesn't have a clear license/a license that can't be found
- GNU GPLv3
- AI Generated Images/Media
- Fair use
For a more in depth view an explanation on copyright types, please visit the Creative Commons CC Licenses page; it's a useful guide for understanding the differences between licenses, as well as which ones allow for remixing, editing, and adaptations (which includes the use of photshop/photobashing).
