On 8/26/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
I've done some more mockups in a similar vein here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebainer/thumbtest
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.
I really like these. I don't think you've quite hit the perfect combination yet though, but you're close. Some thoughts:
- The copyright symbol is a good idea, as it screams out "This image is not necessarily public domain" - The little hand just adds clutter, and is confusing when you actually have the mouse pointer over it - The "i in a box" is good, but needs something more to make it explicitly about the image. - It should be obvious that the image can and should be clicked on. - The (c) with the magnifying glass is sort of on the right track, but really hard to see. Took me a while to realise that that's what it is.
Maybe a combination of the (C) and the (i) ? ("Copyright information"? - or is that too cute?) A (C) with a small hypertext link saying "credits"?
Note in any case that even clicking that link doesn't really solve your problem: it's very hard to find the text that says "Photo taken by sannse". We really need to rethink how we present that information, so we have a single piece of text that says "This picture was taken by Wikipedia user sannse. You can reuse this image as long as you attribute her and follow [[these rules]]."
Steve