On 01/06/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose it would be too much to hope that we could extend the {{}} syntax to images, wherein {{Image:Some-nice_picture.jpg}} embedded the image and [[Image:Some-nice_picture.jpg]] simply linked to the description page?
Well, it might well be too much to hope that all articles on Wikipedia, and all old versions of those articles, could be either converted to obey that rule or somehow activate a "backwards-compatibility" mode.
Besides, while it makes sense that displaying an image is an inclusion, this doesn't actually extend very well to, for instance, sounds - unless we go the route of embedding plugins, sounds will always be more like a fancy link than an "inclusion". (For an example of what I think such a "fancy link" might look like, see my mockup at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia#Software_features )