Basicaly some way to spesify an id and class value for an image *from the
image description page*
Not sure what kind of syntax would be best for this, "traditional" magic
words don't take parameters so something like __META id ="ifd"
class="ifd"__ might seem "ugly" or strange, on the other hand a more
function-ish appraoch like {{#meta: id="ifd"|class="ifd"}} would not be
expected to have the effect I'm suggesting. Ideas on this would be most
welcome ("meta" is probably not the best name either).
Anyway the general idea is this: By whatever means is deemed the best
syntax it should be possible to spesify an arbitrary id and class value
(except one that colide with existing "hard coded" values, maybe prefix
all user spesified values in some way to avoid problems) for an image from
it's description page. The "thumbnailing code" would then apply this to
either the div or img tag of the image (depending on wether or not it's
framed). The admins on any given Wiki are then free to add JavaScript
functions and CSS classes to interact with the image in just about any way
they can imagine.
For Wikipedia projects a few obvious uses are:
"Highlighting" images that are marked for deletion, or as missing source
info and so on in various ways. This may be as simple as adding a red
border around the image, or making use of a JavaScript to superimpose a
warning on top of the image or adding something to the image caption, add
a explanatory tooltip or any number of other possibilities that are best
left to each project to descide.
Replacing the visible thumbnail with a warning sign if a fair use image is
used in User: space.
Optional (add some code to your user CSS/JS page) ability to have fair
use, featured and various other kinds of images marked in special ways.
With a bit of effort it might even be used in combination with a template
like {{fair use in}} to have a warning appear on the image if it's used in
any other page than the one(s) mentioned in the tag (take the page name as
the class parameter and have a JavaScript check against it).
I'm sure there are lots of other creative uses I can't think of right now.
I guess this would reqire a new row in the image table to store these
values.
If at all possible this should work across wikis too, so an image marked
for deletion on Commons would expose it's "deletion" class to all projects
that use the image too (leaving it up to them how to "mark" the image
localy).
Any reason something like this would *not* be possible (or desierable).
There might be problems I haven't though about, but I think it would be a
quite usefull feature. If allowing users to set arbitrary values are too
"hard" a handfull of hard coded magic words (like __DELETION__ or
whatever) would still be better than nothing, but the more flexible the
better I would say. Accessability should not be a problem, if someone
doesn't have JavaScript or CSS eneabled the worst that can happen is that
everyting looks just like it does today with no extra "markings" on any
images. Projects just have to be carefull not to use this layout purposes,
just like they already have to be carefull not to rely on fancy CSS to
make articles "work" properly.
If this is not totaly shot down I'm planning to submit a feature request
via bugzilla, just wanted to get a bit of input from you guys first (like
what would be the best syntax, any additional fetures that would be
usefull related to this etc).
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