How do you source photos in WikiTree?

Question

How do you all source your photos/images? Do you do it in the sources section of "biography"? Do you do it in the "comments" section of the photo? Or both? I have not added a lot of photos as of yet to my profile so had not really looked into it before. It seems to me having a source attached to the image would be a good thing so does the "comment" section suffice for that? I believe the comments exist "outside" the Wiki language so I imagine that if you try to use any of the source coding in the comment section it will not work. Any thoughts or ideas on what works for you? 

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I've been wondering the same thing. I have been adding snippets to some profiles of old census transcriptions from public domain documents that have been scanned and are hosted by Google Books and I would like to provide a link back to the source.

Like you, I noticed that the comment section is not wikified, so URLs don't automatically become links. Using the biography of a related profile seems like a work-around to me. If the image is linked to multiple profiles, should I copy that info to all the profiles?

Perhaps adding a "caption" field to the image allowing freeform wiki text could be used to add source info or other relavant information.

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While you can't use wiki markup in the comments, you can use HTML, so links are still possible.

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Thanks for the tip Lianne,

I just tried it with the following image and I got something like I was looking for. I guess I had previously tried adding a bare or wiki-formatted URL and neither produced a clickable link.

http://www.wikitree.com/photo/Gaudet-41-1.png

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one of the profile examples has source information in the comments - http://www.wikitree.com/photo/Tombstone_for_George_Archibald_Weiss.JPG

 

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Unless it's from my own collection,I have been trying to make sure to put the photographer's attribution or their Creative Commons copyright in the comment section with a link if applicable. Like here : http://www.wikitree.com/photo/Mahony-37.jpg

But now I am thinking I should put source info on all my images like census, baptism records, ect.