Please forward this information to your local project.
Kate Turner has added code to MediaWiki to load licensing information directly from the Commons when viewing a local image description page.
What this means is that you can go to, e.g., http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Aubrey_Beardsley_1.jpg and get the licensing information for that image from the Wikimedia Commons without having to "click through."
This has been a highly requested feature for some time.
This will only work for wikis that have been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5. See Special:Version of your wiki to see if you have been upgraded already.
The text of MediaWiki:Sharedupload may need to be updated.
Many, many thanks to Kate for making this much requested change.
All best,
Erik
Thanks, Kate! Fabulous... another step towards true metadata separation of license information.
On 7/3/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Kate Turner has added code to MediaWiki to load licensing information directly from the Commons when viewing a local image description page.
What this means is that you can go to, e.g., http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Aubrey_Beardsley_1.jpg and get the licensing information for that image from the Wikimedia Commons without having to "click through."
On 03/07/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Kate Turner has added code to MediaWiki to load licensing information directly from the Commons when viewing a local image description page.
This is, probably, an improvement, but an imperfect solution - as pointed out at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2689, it places the commons text directly *before* any locally-entered text with no visual separation (sub-headers would be nice).
And as I point out there, it makes more urgent the need to work out how to make the Commons truly language-independent: neither descriptions only in English, nor a huge list of translations, are really practicable for including on other projects like this.
Rowan Collins wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
On 03/07/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
load licensing information directly from the Commons when viewing a local image description page.
This is, probably, an improvement, but an imperfect solution - as pointed out at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2689, it places the commons text directly *before* any locally-entered text with no visual separation (sub-headers would be nice).
this is fixed now. MediaWiki:Shareddescriptionfollows is displayed before the commons text.
And as I point out there, it makes more urgent the need to work out how to make the Commons truly language-independent: neither descriptions only in English, nor a huge list of translations, are really practicable for including on other projects like this.
this is a separate bug. :)
i think the best way to solve both of these is to first implement localised image description pages on Commons itself (e.g. "Image:An_image.jpeg/de") based on user's selected interface language, then implement a general URL parameter "&uselang=de" (or whatever) which can be used to change the language of the interface without needing to log in. we can then simply fetch http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Foo.jpeg&action=ren... and display it.
for cases where a user would prefer either de or fr over English, this won't work, but i think the interface language mechanism has to be improved before that can be solved here.
if no-one has any other suggestions i may have a look at doing this...
kate.
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