Template:Self/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Self.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 78,000 pages, so changes to it will be widely noticed. Please test any changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Please consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template accepts up to 6 licenses (the first 6 unnamed parameters, which should be the names of image license templates), and displays them as options to choose between in a multi-license. If the image was not uploaded by its author, you can change "I" at the start of the template to another name by setting the author= parameter.

The optional migration= parameter corresponds to keywords in the {{License migration}} template series and is used to track the license update process for GFDL images.

Here are 4 examples of multi-license templates along with links to their component parts:

{{Self \|cc-by-sa-3.0\| GFDL}}
{{Self \|cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0 \|GFDL}}
{{Self \|cc-by-sa-3.0}}
{{Self \|cc-by-3.0}}

Here below is what the first example template produces when saved in an image page.

produces:

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

This template should only be used on file pages.

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.

You may select the license of your choice.