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