[Commons-l] Towards a Commons API

[Brianna Laugher]

On 18/08/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Like - this? ;-)
> >http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Oorgatbrug_schematisch.jpg?withJS=MediaWiki:ChooseResolution.js
>
> Change that to appear above the image at the top like flickr does,
> with a few less options, and a prominant orignal. ... and take it live
> site wide please. Thankx.

Wow. Nice work again Magnus. that is.... fricking whoa.
:D

some minor comments.
Instead of offering 6 choices, just offer one.  200px or 250px. Change
those six links to just be a single option "Use this image on your
webpage outside Wikimedia".
Make sure the link has a nice mouseover so it's not scary (if you can
do this with JS... btw this function strikes me as a perfect little MW
extension).
Now for the HTML you give them, ('Title Goes Here'? *grins*)
change the linktext of 'source' to 'from Wikimedia Commons', and
remove the direct link to the fullsize file.
Also, I am pretty sure the devs will crack it if you point to
thumb.php for every single use. We have perfectly good cached thumbs,
do we not? good enough for Wikimedia, good enough for everyone else.
:)

For our toolserver tools, what do they point to? Is there some 200px
thumb cache they use? I had an idea that there was...

I suppose if actually rolled this out sitewide we would need to talk
to the devs and see what they think...

cheers
Brianna

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