On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
It's a tricky one. I favour more image use,
not less, but then I work
with images a lot (outside Wikipedia), so I'm kind of biased there. I
Yeah, I wonder if there is equally a pro-text/anti-image bias amongst
some editors?
(Me, I love images for skim reading - get a quick impression of a
subject without having to read every word.)
do think that galleries that are large and purely
illustrative are not
really suitable for Wikipedia.
Honest question: what does "illustrative" mean in this context? Any
image is "illustrating" something. Are you distinguishing between
decoration (say, lots of pretty pictures of similar things) and adding
information?
Commons *categories* are not the
equivalent of Wikipedia galleries, but you can create *pages* on
Commons that you can arrange into galleries and divide into sections
and annotate as needed.
True, but putting effort into crafting such galleries on Commons
seems...misplaced. I care about the encyclopaedia. And no one has ever
heard of Commons. And no one ever goes there to find out more about a
subject. Ever.
I do think that a section or article paragraph
on (say) waterfalls in a National Park known for having many
waterfalls could have a limited gallery of a few waterfalls, but
something showing *all* of them would either have to be part of a
standalone article, or a wikibook on the topic, or a Commons page, and
you should be able to link all three directly from the article
section, rather than hiding the link away down the bottom of the
article.
Well I think there's only half a dozen or so in that national park.
And there are only photos of two. (And excellent photos at that.)
It is mainly a question of layout and placement
and context,
and can sometimes require creative thinking. The key is always to make
the reader *aware* that image-rich resources are available, but not to
shove the images in their faces. Give the reader options, but don't
force-feed them.
Yep. Wish there were better tools for this. An expanding box with one
or two images shown as a teaser would be great.
Steve
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