Instead of introducing complicated syntax, would it not be better that
media viewer only displays thumbs?
Rupert
Am 16.05.2014 20:00 schrieb "Fabrice Florin" <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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
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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)
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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