Hoi, There are two things to consider; * Pictures in our projects should be Free. This means that the pictures should be usable in any context. * Because many of our projects are not Free for simple re-use, there is a need to do stupid contortions by always show the license.
It is imho better to sort out the underlying problem than to prevent things that improve usability. I think is really bad that it is now suggested not to have clickable images. Thanks, GerardM
Guillaume Paumier wrote:
On 9/9/06, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
thank you for your reaction. I think your idea of putting the image in the page it points to is a good idea. But I would like to broaden the discussion a bit. We are now thinking about where it is used, and how we can talk it right. I think we should actually think about how we can use it in the broadest sense, so we can afterwards find out when we can use it. The point is that people will always come up with new uses of the template, and I think we should somehow state clear what is allowed and what not. I only know of the use in main pages, but it is also used broader I guess. It could be used for flags to link to countries, or for roads, to link the the article about it. (Like A1, A2 etc in http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam ) So what are your thoughts about it when you forget about the main page, and think in general?
Lodewijk
Actually, it seems your example about motorways isn't an image but a formatted text ;)
Anyway, you're right to say we should make things clear. My opinion is: clickable images should be avoided. The general policy is the license-information should be available by simply clicking the image. First-time visitors are a bit surprised by this, but if we start mixing clickable and non-clickable images (that means respectively images pointing to an article/portal and images pointing to their description page), the situation will soon become a huge mess. Otherwise, people don't know where they're going to land when clicking an image.
In a nutshell: avoid clickable images.
g.