The reason for this approach is that we cannot currently guarantee that the file would display if the article name is changed at any point. We looked into a possible solution to that issue, but concluded that it would require significant development, as well as the involvement of our operations team, which already has too much on its plate.

Given that we are winding down feature development on Media Viewer, I am not convinced that this is the most important issue we should be working on at this time, with the limited hours we have left on this product. So I would recommend implementing an expedient solution for now, rather than the more complex solution we all want in the future.

On May 5, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I would also recommend that we optimize for option 2 and use canonical
(English) namespace name for all files hosted on Commons, which is the
primary use case.

Doesn't it matter more where the file is _displayed_ rather than where
it's hosted?

As a user, if I'm displaying a file in its German Wikipedia context,
chances are pretty good I'll want to embed it in a German Wikipedia
article, irrespective of whether the file is hosted on Commons. And
there, people will be annoyed if I embed it as [[File:]] rather than
[[Datei:]].

In any case, this seems like a case where whatever the community
preference is should just win (with the possible exception of the
newbie-unfrlendly option 3) from a product perspective.

Erik

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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