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...
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_deplo...
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...
--bawolff
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