On May 13, 2014 6:32 AM, "Gergo Tisza" <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> just reading through and one issue that stands out with (e.g.:
[[file:foo.png|thumb|no-viewer|…]]). format is that many of the small image
files are embedded within infoboxes, templates and tables would it be more
efficient to restrict media viewer to only images that use the syntax
[[File:foo.jpg|thumb|....]] within an article body ignoring images embedded
with in {{.....}} and encourage editors to shift flags, small icons, maps
etc into templates.
Gnangarra's suggestion seems very sensible. Rather than mediaviewer
launching trying to include everything, and being 'wrong' many times,
causing community discontent and lots of 'emergency' editing, ... only
enable it for a very large subset which will have very low negatives, and
then have a productive discussion with the community about rolling the
feature out on more images. Fine tuning.
MediaViewer uses the HTML code of the page to make
decisions. Using the
wikitext directly would create way more problems than it would
solve.
'thumb' already adds a css class to the HTML that you can use.
> Alternatively just use the [[file:Foo.jpg|thumb
|....]] as the key for
media viewer to display otherwise it just ignores the file
There are images that do not use that syntax but we want to display them,
for
example infobox main images, gallery templates, images on the main
page...
But you could launch without the infobox images...?
Maybe infobox templates could add the 'thumb' class in the right part of
the html to trigger the correct viewer effect?
<gallery> also uses the 'thumb' class.
Does the mediaviewer register a pageview on the image page when the viewer
is opened? If not, images on the mainpage may not be good candidates for
mediaviewer, as that is one desired outcome of being on the front page.
Also the mediaviewer commons image parser doesnt work well for complex
pages, such as images typically seen on the frontpage of the projects. The
mediaviewer for Sitta europaea wildlife 2 1.jpg (on en.wp mp right now)
only gives the filename - the description is missing.
--
John