On 5/15/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
I've been following this thread with some interest, both as a photographer (who has actually contributed original work to WP) and as a usability guy, who understands that icons should behave the way icons *behave*...
and I like Steve's suggestion here a *lot*; I think it's probably the best balance between people getting credit for their work, and websites working as websites are -- these days -- expected to work.
I've unthreaded this, so this proposal doesn't get lost in the noise.
Click for the big version (where copyright data is harmless) is the expected behavior for the common case of illustrations (vs navigational aids). I don't think we should change that behavior for most things due to usability reasons... so if we want something else for icons/navigational aids, and mainpage images then we still need to establish another kind of image tag.
I think a credits page is a good thing. Just like the mediawiki bottom credits which we disable due to performance reasons.
These things are not mutually exclusive.