On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 at 18:14 Lilburne lilburne@tygers-of-wrath.net wrote:
For the last 12 years Flickr have a system where people can click on a link and get the HTML or BBCODE that properly attributes the image along with the link to the license and all the rest of the requirements for the CC license. Why can't commons do the same?
Otherwise its not hard to properly attribute a CC- licensed image.
This was provided in MediaViewer some years ago. (See e.g. today's Commons POTD https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg#/media/File:Ehrenstetten_-_%C3%96lbergkapelle6.jpg, unless you're logged into an account that has the feature disabled.)
On viewing the image/media file, users can click the "share" icon, then pick "embed", and they get an HTML response contains the uploader account name (with link), the licence name (with link), and a link to the media file's page on wiki.
This feature could be more visible (at some cost to reader experience), but it's there.
Hope this helps.
J.