On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I would also recommend that we optimize for option 2
and use canonical
(English) namespace name for all files hosted on Commons, which is the
primary use case.
Doesn't it matter more where the file is _displayed_ rather than where
it's hosted?
As a user, if I'm displaying a file in its German Wikipedia context,
chances are pretty good I'll want to embed it in a German Wikipedia
article, irrespective of whether the file is hosted on Commons. And
there, people will be annoyed if I embed it as [[File:]] rather than
[[Datei:]].
In any case, this seems like a case where whatever the community
preference is should just win (with the possible exception of the
newbie-unfrlendly option 3) from a product perspective.
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation