On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
That doesn't, however, help the concern that millions of users are
pulling
up the images without immediately seeing the license requirements and
author information.
To the contrary, Media Viewer displays the license, author and source as an always visible part of the image. On a typical file page, you have to scroll down to find any of this information; most users won't do that, if what they are looking for is the image, and that is available without scrolling. (It is well known in web usability http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/ that relatively little attention is given to things above the fold; one of the main benefits of Media Viewer is that it brings the most important things above it.)
Agree. The best practices for "marking a work" is to "*make sure that the license information is clearly visible underneath (or otherwise next to) the image." [1] [2]*
*1. **http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license*
*2. http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/how_to/creative_commons/best_practices_c... http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/how_to/creative_commons/best_practices_creative_commons_attributions*
*Unfortunately our "file description page" give more importance for subject description and bury the attribution parameters in a negligible location. As a result most reuses end up with an attribution, "Credit:Wiki[m/p]edia". :(*
*Jee*