On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:23:50PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:27:18PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
Heh, ok, so people who are looking to follow the link to another article click and get the wrong behaviour. People actually looking for the image info don't think of clicking. Everyone loses!
Would it be possible, on each and every page, to have a "Image credits" link which would provide links to the attribution page of every image used on that page, no matter how it was used? Then professionals would know to always click on that same "Image credits" link placed in the bottom corner, for example.
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.
Comments, all?
An "image credits"-link below an icon will look very odd. Especially when there are 8 project icons next to each other, like at the bottom of the en:Main_Page.
For the WM project icons, we could perhaps have an Icon: namespace. But this would not solve the problem of the featured article thumbnails not working like thumbnails on other news websites.
We could show a fancy menu when hovering over the image, having a link to the image info page and a link to the article. That would still be - unexpected for most users - not friendly to users browsing with user agents that are not CSS or JS ready (depending on implementation) - ugly to code when many browsers should be supported. Fallback would be the current behaviour.
I'm not yet convinced that this would be a good solution, though.
Regards,
JeLuF