[Foundation-l] Clickable images: proposal

[Jean-Denis Vauguet]

Erik Moeller wrote:
 > There's been a lot of discussion already about how navigational images
> could be implemented while preserving image credit. The best strategy
> I've seen would be to have an extension, Special:Mediacredits, which,
> called with a page title as a parameter, would transclude all the
> description pages of the images and other media used on that page. A
> page-dependent link to the Special:Imagecredits page would then be
> inserted into the sidebar and/or page footer.

That's exactly what I intended to propose before reading the last email
of this thread-your's ;)

A *real* meta page could be useful IMO. The user/reader would find many
useful information there:
- a notice about GFDL (text) and "how to re-use our content" (maybe with
the famous list of ten first editors required by the GFDL, automated?)
- thumbnails of all images/videos/audios of the article, with licence
logos (for it's handy once you're used to see them) and links toward
info pages
- the page could be used to itemize meta informations currently nested
on the article text form, such as interwikis and so on (a good thing
would be to allow editors to write such meta tag while editing the
article text, but MediaWiki would move them from this article-text db
record to the article-meta record. And maybe add an option in
Preferences, like "show me the meta form while editing"...)
- ideas?

What do you think?

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