On 17 August 2010 03:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Sage Ross, 16/08/2010 23:19:
The way Flickr does things is a good comparison. They have a "share this" pulldown, with options to share by email, share by long or short url, and HTML and BBCode for various sizes.
By the way, this was proposed (also) by Erik Moeller two years ago http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31977 during a discussion on hotlinking http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31919
Hotlinking is fine, and InstantCommons is really really nice and really usable.
The main problem for hotlinking is that the names at the WMF end are not stable. Fixing this would require software work to make stable hotlinking easy.
Then we can easily make the various linking texts available, presumably with the default including a link back to the Commons page.
- d.