On 5/17/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
We discussed (featured article) images on portals/main page which don't take you to the expected location. This proposal is a nonstarter for that solution because very few of them are under a license which doesn't require attribution, and no upsurge in such images is expected.
Ok for that case I think it's a non-issue. A main page article that uses an image from that article would surely qualify for "easily accessible", right? Take the example of "Philosophy of mind" currently on the main page. Click the image, it takes you to [[Philosophy of mind]]. If you still care who made the image, life could hardly be easier - click it again. We can simply ask people to ensure that the image is available on that page. Agree?
We also discussed little navigational buttons. I'm actually having a hard time finding any that are PD, most of the ones on enwiki are LGPLed or GFDLed, and most came from outside sources (not wikipedia user created). So I'm a little confused as to how the no-attribution linkable image proposal would be useful. Can you provide concrete examples (with hyperlinks to images where you would expect us to use this feature?
Ok, I concede.
We've discussed an automatic image info link, which I support and you reject and we've discussed making it look like a redirect, which is in poor taste, and fails to meet the not obscured or hidden requirement.
I don't think I've rejected anything but ok.
Okay! Show us working code and the discussion can continue, right now this all appears to be hand-waving and speculation to me... and no compelling argument has been made why I should spend my time implementing anything discussed here.
I apologise - I wasn't aware that you were a developer seriously considering implementing the thing yourself.
Steve