Thanks, Dan. The main goal is to tag images that are *not* suitable for display in Media Viewer (either because they are small, unrelated icons or flags — or because they do not display well in the current viewer). Since most images are suitable for Media Viewer, I would not recommend requiring every image to be manually tagged for inclusion — but rather only tag the images that need to be excluded. As for other use cases, it’s possible that some future applications (e.g. a slide-show maker) might also want to use this class to filter relevant images from an article. Hence the proposal to not make the name specific to Media Viewer, if that’s easy to do. Hope this helps, Fabrice On May 12, 2014, at 2:47 PM, dan-nl <dan.entous.wikimedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

whats needed is something that is simple on the front end to use, to wiki-code and maintain it doesnt matter how good a gadget is if its to hard for people to work with they will switch off, either through preferences, other gadgets or altogether. I know it may sound horrid from a programmers perspective but priority must be for simple front end solutions that require minimal maintenance by content creators, a switch such as [[File:Foo.jpg|*noview*|.....]] is the easiest solution, or alternatively [[File:Foo.png|icon|.....]] where icon also sets the image to a preselected size of 50px and can only render upto 100px On 14 May 2014 20:50, Krinkle <krinklemail(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- GN. Vice President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com

Hi guys, We’ve been discussing the various proposals on this thread and don’t see a strong consensus yet. This lack of consensus in our email discussions so far may suggest that our original proposal to use a separate class may not be the best solution for this issue. We are growing concerned that using a separate class (e.g. ’noviewer’) could introduce more confusion and inconsistency, with some editors disabling certain images in some places, but not in others. So we would like to propose a simpler approach, which would be to use existing methods to disable Media Viewer for some images, as proposed in the FAQ draft below. What do you guys think of that approach? At Fae’s suggestion, I started an onwiki discussion for this proposal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#How_to_di… Feel free to respond onwiki or via email, as you prefer. Thanks for your guidance :) Fabrice ________________________ PROPOSED HELP FAQ ==How can I disable Media Viewer for unrelated or unsuitable images?== Sometimes, Media Viewer displays images that are confusing for our users. This includes metadata images (e.g. small icons, flags), which are not related to the page's topic; other images do not render well and are not suitable for Media Viewer (such as maps using weird CSS/JS tricks, or images which use a clipping template). We invite editors to prevent these images from appearing in Media Viewer, using one of these two methods: * For metadata images, simply add this "metadata" class for unrelated images like icons or flags: <code><nowiki><span class="metadata">[[File:Foo.jpg]]</span></nowiki></code> * For images that are not metadata, but which don’t really render well in Media Viewer, consider using a '[[:w:Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax#Images_that_link_somewhere_other_than_the_image_description_page|link parameter]]' to disable them in Media Viewer: <code><nowiki>[[File:Foo.jpg|link=]]</nowiki></code> <br> To enable users to access file information, consider adding a link in the file’s caption, so people can still access its file information page: <code><nowiki>|[[:File:Foo.jpg|Learn more]]</nowiki></code> Other methods may be available to exclude images in Media Viewer, but we encourage community editors to start marking metadata images right away, using the first method above, since that is work that should be taking place anyway. (End of proposed FAQ) _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)