Hi all,
We would appreciate your help to come up with a class name that community members can use
to exclude an image from Media Viewer or related tools.
Too many small files (like icons, flags, etc.) appear in Media Viewer for some articles,
even though they are unrelated to the topic of the article. Other image files also need to
be excluded, because they are not suitable for Media Viewer (such as maps using weird
CSS/JS tricks, or images which use a clipping template).
Many community members have reported this issue, which delivers an unpleasant browsing
experience for users who only want to view images that are relevant for the article they
are reading (and which are supported by Media Viewer).
We agree that this is an important issue. The most practical way to address it would
require editors to add a .metadata class to the images they don’t want to show on a page,
as proposed here:
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/511
We just need to come up with a class name people are happy with for excluding an image
from Media Viewer or related tools. We already exclude images which have a .metadata
class, but there are images that aren't really metadata but still not appropriate.
Any ideas? What class name do you recommend we use to convey this important information?
Here are some possible ideas, to get this conversation started;
* hide
* exclude
* noshow
* ??
It would be best if we agreed on a name that is not tied to Media Viewer, so it can be
used by other tools which may have the same needs, now or in the future.
Once we settle on a class name, we can schedule that feature for development, so editors
can filter out unsuitable images for everyone’s viewing pleasure :)
Thanks for your feedback!
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)