On Oct 30, 2007 1:13 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok to summarise where we have gotten to in
compromises, consensus etc:
How do we make it happen?
Lets go one at a time:
- [[Image:]] tags should have an information link to
the image page, in one
of the mocked-up styles.
This one is easiest. Let consensus behind a style, then I'll work out
the details and make sure we get it implemented.
- The image page should have author and licence
metadata parseable by MediaWiki and useable on other pages.
Commons has the data source side of this nearly covered with
information template.
Basically some kind of magic word would be added to the mediawiki
markup that indicates the surrounded post-transclusion text should be
copied out into a separate column in the database. Since commons
already has structured data for authorship, once the software is done
this would require only a few template changes.
What do we do on Enwp? ... I'm thinking that an effort to move all
free images to commons would actually take no more work than trying to
fixup the descriptions on enwp.
- [[Image:]] tags should ideally show author
and licence information in a tooltip.
This is an utterly trivial software change (on the order of a few
minutes) after the data is extracted and available in the database.
- Article pages should show credit information for all
images on the page in
a list, either as a second tab, or at the bottom of the page somehow.
[I'm ignoring text credit information for the moment]
If we ignore text it's like the above, but ignoring text is ignoring
the elephant in the room.
Traversing 30k+ revisions to get all the user names who have edited
and article with a huge history is not reasonable.
One possibility would be creating a editable credits tab (like a talk
page). The bottom of the page is auto populated with image credits,
basically the extracted image data plus a thumbnail for each image.
The top would be a editable Wikipage. We could bot populate them with
a list of all people who edited, or a filtered version, and then
invite people who add new content to add themselves to the page.
Don't want to be credited? don't list yourself.
I fear that this last one is complicated and significant enough of a
change that its dead on arrivial, but it's the only way that I think
we could stand to seriously improve our text attribution. :(