On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
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amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 2012/2/27 nischay nahata <
nischayn22@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:15 PM, praveenp <
me.praveen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> By user level customization it is possible. I think providing such a
>>> feature by default, in wiki level, in projects like wikipedia is a bad
>>> idea because each file page contains much more data than a pop up
>>> layer can afford. Unlike facebook or google plus, only relevant and
>>> properly licensed pictures, remain undeleted in wikimedia projects. So
>>> all informations present in media pages, including license, category,
>>> included pages, details about the file, etc are important for an
>>> encyclopedic project. So current style file pages are not replacable
>>> (atleast for now). Still user customization possible for those who not
>>> interested in such details.
>>
>> I think that answers my query pretty well
>
> Hey, that's just one opinion :)
>
> I think that it's a pretty good idea. It just need the right design. I
> see no problem at all with showing the image like in Google+ with the
> license fine-print under it.
>
> The wikitech-l and foundation-l mailing lists are the best places to
> discuss it. And maybe also the Village Pump of Commons:
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VP