On 05/13/2014 12:35 AM, Gergo Tisza wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke@wikimedia.org mailto:gwicke@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Another option is to make this a property of the image rather than it's use site. That should cover the typical icon well, and with minimal editor effort.
Most images are hosted on Commons, so that would mean the Commons community would configure how images are used on other wikis. I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing. It would certainly mean less work for editors, and the work would be done by those who know the most about images. On the other hand different wikis have different conventions, and tend to take affront if conventions from other wikis are forced on them.
Combining per-image settings to set the default with the ability to override those defaults in CSS seems to give you the best of both worlds. It's easy to set icons to not show up by default *once* on commons, and it's still possible to modify the behavior locally for less clear-cut cases.
Also, I strongly agree with other's preference to avoid introducing new wikitext syntax for this.
Gabriel