Thanks for the the improvement itself, looks very good.
But for wikis with disabled local uploads or limited usage of the local
file namespace I would like to see a core function/setting to skip the
local file page and redirect to Commons directly.
Currently a Gadget is necessary for this skip (like on dewiki).
Cheers
Raimond.
Raimond Spekking, Köln
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Am 08.04.2014 20:00, schrieb Brian Wolff:
I actually agree with the encouraging people to go to commons, however
there's probably a limit to what we can do with the tabs while still
having a tab for creating local descriptions, which can be useful
sometimes.
Of course translatewiki takes the approach of just disabling edits in
the File namespace (
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/File:Example.png ),
so there is always that. I think there was some suggestion of having
an "edit on commons" tab but as the commit summary noted (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104182/ ) there is the potential
for users to be confused about where they are editing and that
suddenly they are on another site (doubly so if not a wikimedia wiki
with no sul)
Anyways, i should reiterate, the thanks should go to
[[User:This,_that_and_the_other]] who actually pushed the change
forward, all I did was send some outreach notices about it.
Cheers,
Bawolff
On Apr 8, 2014 7:26 AM, "billinghurst" <billinghurst(a)gmail.com
<mailto:billinghurst@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks Brian. I do wonder why we would encourage a local description,
when there is better value (IMO) in having additional language
description
to the file at Commons.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:28:46 -0300, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com
<mailto:bawolff@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi
folks,
tl;dr : The navigation tabs at the top of pages like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg, are soon
going to look like
http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kirun…
>
> This is a small change, but its a UI change, so I thought a mail to
> wikitech-ambassadors couldn't hurt. [[User:This,_that_and_the_other]]
> recently made a cool change to how the tabs of image pages on local
> wikis (wikipedia, etc) for files on commons, work. Previously such a
> page displayed a "create" tab, and generally looked like what the tabs
> look like for a page that doesn't exist. For example, see
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg . After this
> change there will be tabs for "View this image on Wikimedia Commons"
> and "Create local description" (or "Edit local description" if
it
> already exists). There will be no changes to file pages at commons, or
> the file pages of locally uploaded files.
>
> The change is part of 1.23wmf22, and will probably go live on April 10
> to
test.wikipedia.org/test2.wikipedia.org/mediawiki.org
<http://test.wikipedia.org/test2.wikipedia.org/mediawiki.org>,
non-wikipedia
sister
projects on April 15, and Wikipedias on April 17. (See
deployment calender at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl…
for
details on the deployment schedule )
You can view a screenshot of what it will look like at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_foreign_repo_file_tabs.png
. You can test it out for real right now at beta wiki
http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kirun…
>
> --bawolff
>
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