Raimond Spekking, Köln
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I actually agree with the encouraging people to go to commons, however there's probably a limit to what we can do with the tabs while still having a tab for creating local descriptions, which can be useful sometimes.

Of course translatewiki takes the approach of just disabling edits in the File namespace ( http://translatewiki.net/wiki/File:Example.png ), so there is always that. I think there was some suggestion of having an "edit on commons" tab but as the commit summary noted ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104182/ ) there is the potential for users to be confused about where they are editing and that suddenly they are on another site (doubly so if not a wikimedia wiki with no sul)

Anyways, i should reiterate, the thanks should go to [[User:This,_that_and_the_other]] who actually pushed the change forward, all I did was send some outreach notices about it.

Cheers,
Bawolff

On Apr 8, 2014 7:26 AM, "billinghurst" <billinghurst@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Brian.  I do wonder why we would encourage a local description,
> when there is better value (IMO) in having additional language description
> to the file at Commons.
>
> Regards, Billinghurst
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:28:46 -0300, Brian Wolff <bawolff@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > tl;dr : The navigation tabs at the top of pages like
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg, are soon
> > going to look like
> >
> http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kiruna-Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet.jpg
> >
> > This is a small change, but its a UI change, so I thought a mail to
> > wikitech-ambassadors couldn't hurt. [[User:This,_that_and_the_other]]
> > recently made a cool change to how the tabs of image pages on local
> > wikis (wikipedia, etc) for files on commons, work. Previously such a
> > page displayed a "create" tab, and generally looked like what the tabs
> > look like for a page that doesn't exist. For example, see
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg . After this
> > change there will be tabs for "View this image on Wikimedia Commons"
> > and "Create local description" (or "Edit local description" if it
> > already exists). There will be no changes to file pages at commons, or
> > the file pages of locally uploaded files.
> >
> > The change is part of 1.23wmf22, and will probably go live on April 10
> > to test.wikipedia.org/test2.wikipedia.org/mediawiki.org, non-wikipedia
> > sister projects on April 15, and Wikipedias on April 17. (See
> > deployment calender at
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_deployments
> > for details on the deployment schedule )
> >
> > You can view a screenshot of what it will look like at
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_foreign_repo_file_tabs.png
> > . You can test it out for real right now at beta wiki
> >
> http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kiruna-Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet.jpg
> >
> > --bawolff
> >
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