Jastrow wrote:
Le 9/6/07 9:55 PM, Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
You're a bit late: It already is the standard.. it's use is directed by the upload forms and it is used on most images.
I know all of that. As of now, {{Information}} is not the standard in the sense as it's not supposed to be used on *all* images, even those which are already described by a better template.
Almost all pictures representing Louvre exhibits are described with {{Information Louvre}}. That means more than 2,500 pictures. I know we have more than a million files on Commons now, but we're talking about 2,500 pictures with name of the artist, description, medium, dimensions, credit line, accession number, precise location in the museum and correct author attribution. Using {{Information}} for those pictures would be a plain, simple regression.
Not that there isn't room for improvement. .. the completely unstructured data on a lot of our older images and imports from other projects is simply terrible.
Which is exactly what my precedent message was adressing.
Jastrow
Agree. We don't need to have ONE template on ALL images, we can (and should) have a number of templates, as long as it's documented. Ie. we have a page listing all of "valid" templates and describing its arguments. If a bot knows that Information_Louvre->source is equivalent to Information->Author it can happily work with any of them being present. Just keep it documented (and a working parsing implementation).
Another example are PD books templates. They have everything about the image "Page X from book Y, by Foo on Year on public domain". Here the source & author values for the template would be hardcoded.