On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com wrote:
As a "hotlinker" (far from a very active one), thanks for your comments, as I told you I use hotlinkg mainly into "volatile" communication tools like forums and not into websites. It would be great if an informative box would be added to File: page, containing a brief mention to general Mediawiki politics about hotlinking and the html code for a correct hotlinking, if really needed.
As Gregory indicated already, EXIF data is not a really good way to add attribution metadata to files.
However, i think some way to make it easier for people to add images to their pages using some kind of easy tool on the File: page itself, akin to the YouTube embed code is a pretty good idea. Maybe some kind of iframe or Javascript gadget would be nice, that could also be used for attribution and indicating that more media are available on Commons.
-- Hay