Swedish Wikipedia has long ago disabled all local uploading of files (pictures) and has moved all files to Wikimedia Commons. When explaining Wikipedia and Commons to newcomers, it's very frustrating to land on the intermediary file description page on Wikipedia before moving on to Commons where image categories and other extra functions are found. To this end, a "gadget" has been installed in sv.wikipedia that changes all image links to point directly to Commons. This is very convenient, except that gadgets require a user account and a personal setting, so they are not available to the newcomers who need this.
Could we please just skip local file description pages for everybody? Perhaps a reversed gadget could enable them back, but the default should be for image links to go directly to Commons. Is this possible? Does any project already use this? What should I write in the site request in Bugzilla?
Yes, we have discussed this and there is a broad consensus on the Swedish Wikipedia village pump, http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bybrunnen#Avskaffa_svenska_bildbeskri...
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Could we please just skip local file description pages for everybody? Perhaps a reversed gadget could enable them back, but the default should be for image links to go directly to Commons. Is this possible? Does any project already use this? What should I write in the site request in Bugzilla?
There is no such specific function in MediaWiki as far as I know.
Bryan
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Could we please just skip local file description pages for everybody? Perhaps a reversed gadget could enable them back, but the default should be for image links to go directly to Commons. Is this possible? Does any project already use this? What should I write in the site request in Bugzilla?
There is no such specific function in MediaWiki as far as I know.
It should be possible to do this as a gadget or as part of Common.js, like is done for 'secure' interwikis.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440
-- John Vandenberg
@2010-11-03 01:58, Lars Aronsson:
Swedish Wikipedia has long ago disabled all local uploading of files (pictures) and has moved all files to Wikimedia Commons. When explaining Wikipedia and Commons to newcomers, it's very frustrating to land on the intermediary file description page on Wikipedia before moving on to Commons where image categories and other extra functions are found. To this end, a "gadget" has been installed in sv.wikipedia that changes all image links to point directly to Commons. This is very convenient, except that gadgets require a user account and a personal setting, so they are not available to the newcomers who need this.
If you already have a gadget just add it to [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] and disable the gadget by removing it from [[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]].
Regards, Nux.
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