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
2006/9/9, Guillaume Paumier guillom.pom@gmail.com:
Hello
On 9/9/06, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I think we all saw them. Clickable images. Very usefull, especially on the main page etc, but there are some slight problems. You can not access the license-information without digging in the sourcecode of the page. And that might be in a template in a template etc. So that's why I am wondering:
Should it be allowed at all to make images clickable, as people cannot check the license-information?
AFAIK, these clickable images are mainly used to direct either to other Wikimedia sister projects, or to really big portals. In the first case, the logos are the property of the Wikimedia Foundation. Is there any issue with not giving the license-information?
In the second case, the images are used to direct people to pages which are symbolized by these images. I suggest the target page includes the image linking to it (classic image include, that links to the image description page). Thus, if people want to know the license-information, they have to click twice, but it's easier than to dig in templates.
g.
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