Another solution might be to add an 'info' icon *on* the image (not
underneath), in the bottom-right corner. Clicking the icon can either
lead to the Image page, or maybe even replace the contents of the
image with some information or a small credit caption. I've seen this
solution on some weblogs and it seems to work pretty well. It would
also work on images that do not have a caption.
However, i guess it would be a bit harder to implement than just a
simple extra icon and might lead to some Javascript troubles.
-- Hay / Husky
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 4:40 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23/01/2008, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)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
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