On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 4:40 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/2008, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
But these concerns are not in conflict with providing *good*
credit:
We could provide a credits tab, a more obvious expand icon, or any
one
of a dozen other improvements. We've talked about some of these before. Where are they?
I believe it got bogged down in indecisive polls on a suitable replacement for the expand-box icon on images. What would it take (technically) to just replace that with a blue circle-i?
And I just got yet another phone call from someone who wanted to reuse an image from Wikipedia but didn't realise you clicked on the picture to get to the image page. Fergoshsake, the two-rectangles "expand" icon is meaningless. (I mean this thing that's on every image: http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png - I suppose changing it would take changing the skin.)
People interested about this simple solution to improve the visibility of credits are welcome to comment or vote for the following bug on MediaWiki bugzilla : https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13070
My personal wiki is set up so the frame and background around thumbnails will gently change color if the user moves their mouse over them (I change the gray to a light yellow). In my opinion, this "hover" highlighting helps people realize that that there is something to see by clicking on the image. If people wanted to do something like that, it can be set up in CSS with no changes to Mediawiki.
-Robert Rohde