Hi all,

While adding details on story #589 about showing the caption above the fold in Media Viewer, I recalled that we were considering not showing the file description below the fold for files that have both a caption and a description. I wanted to confirm if that is the case, and the changes it will imply.

I created story #895 to capture required changes if we remove the below the fold description. Basically it reorganises a little bit the authorship information so that is can expand using the room the description used and avoids just having an empty area below the fold.

The rationale for removing the description below the fold was that for files that have both caption and description they tend to be redundant most of the time. I did a quick exploration by picking some random vital articles and going through 62 images:

46% of the images lack description or it was not shown in Media Viewer
From the rest of the files where both caption and description:

58% (26% of total) provide redundant information or the description didn't add additional details (example).
44% (20% of total) show more details on the description or complementary info to the caption (example).

I'm not sure how representative this is compared to all our files (any data on the subject is welcome), but taking into account that the file description can be accessed through the "more details" button which we plan to make more prominent, I'm ok with removing it if we don't found stronger evidence of its need.

Should that be made as part of the changes of #589? I don't know, I created card #895 as a separate card so that it can be done after #589 or at the same time, as it makes more sense according to development efforts.

Any thoughts?

Pau

Pau Giner

Interaction Designer

Wikimedia Foundation