On 8/24/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It seems to me this is an issue for Wikipedia (et al)
rather than
Commons per se.
My 2c, I strongly support the existing system. Having inline
attribution would be too intrusive. (How would it look for those
national flags that have been edited by 20 people...)
However maybe a mouseover system for everyone by default, that has the
{{information}}, would be a good idea.
WP already has software that will do the mouseover popup. It's one
feature of navigation popups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPUPS
They could strip out just the image functionalities fairly easily.