Forum:Licensing

Hi, I am the creator of CardGuide Wiki. I have a question about the licenses.

When I upload an image I must select a license. Mostly it is Creative Commons, some cards are scanned by me.

When I'm editing an Image page, the chosen license is invisible. How can I make it visible?

Thank you very much! vuurvosje 08:49, August 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * You need to be an admin, but you can edit the list of licenses at w:c:cardguide:MediaWiki:Licenses. The format of the page is as follows:

 etc...
 * License description 1
 * Licensetemplate1|Link name for Licensetemplate1
 * License description 2
 * Licensetemplate2|Link name for Licensetemplate2
 * License description 3
 * Licensetemplate3|Link name for Licensetemplate3
 * The name of the license template like Licensetemplate1 (or as a real example No license) corresponds to a template on your wiki. So No license corresponds to a template Template:No license on your wiki.
 * So if you want a new license to appear on the upload popup or page, just make a new license template (you can use the existing ones as examples to start from) like Template:New license, and add an entry in the MediaWiki:Licenses page like:


 * Pick this new license if...
 * New license|My new license
 * -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 3 Aug 2011 11:42 AM Pacific


 * I have a question on this matter, if I have a template like, how I made it the dafault template? Basically if someone leaves "none selected" then that template will be added. And is there a way to call a template with a parameter? like


 * License description
 * Template|Parameter=value|Description


 * You can't give it a parameter, that I know of. That would be a Special:Contact</tt> question. I believe the first template that appears in MediaWiki:Licenses</tt> will be the default, but I'm not sure. -- <span style="border-bottom:1px dotted; cursor:help;" title="Who?">Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 4 Aug 2011 8:15 AM Pacific

The default is always "none selected". That can't be changed and you can't make a template with that name; it's a mediawiki thing and as far as I know there are no extensions to change that behavior. There have been other threads about it in this forum so you can look into them to get some tips on alternatives.