On 8/26/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
I've done some more mockups in a similar vein here: These mockups are all achieved with wikitext (and a little HTML) but obviously something like this would be implemented by way of a MediaWiki message.
Any ideas on how to handle this for captionless images and for really small images?
I've added another proposed look to your page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebainer/thumbtest
The thought behind my proposal is that the universal copyright symbol is more likely to express the importance of the information behind the link. The hand icon signifies something that you can click on.
In terms of encouraging proper image-reuse this is even better than simply providing the authors name, since it encourages people to look at the license information as well. If we ever implement bug9616 (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9616) we could change the icon depending on the license... Or do so for logged in users.
I've also made it replace the pre-existing caption icon, so it doesn't consume any additional screen real-estate.
I've overlapped the image slightly, which may cause some problems in IE... but if we actually wanted something like that style both possible sources of problems (broken z-index handling and PNG transparency) can be worked around.