[Foundation-l] Clickable images

[effe iets anders]

Hi,

thank you for your reaction. I think your idea of putting the image in
the page it points to is a good idea. But I would like to broaden the
discussion a bit. We are now thinking about where it is used, and how
we can talk it right. I think we should actually think about how we
can use it in the broadest sense, so we can afterwards find out when
we can use it. The point is that people will always come up with new
uses of the template, and I think we should somehow state clear what
is allowed and what not. I only know of the use in main pages, but it
is also used broader I guess.
It could be used for flags to link to countries, or for roads, to link
the the article about it. (Like A1, A2 etc in
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam ) So what are your thoughts
about it when you forget about the main page, and think in general?

Lodewijk

2006/9/9, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com>:
> Hello
>
> On 9/9/06, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I think we all saw them. Clickable images. Very usefull, especially on
> > the main page etc, but there are some slight problems. You can not
> > access the license-information without digging in the sourcecode of
> > the page. And that might be in a template in a template etc. So that's
> > why I am wondering:
> >
> > Should it be allowed at all to make images clickable, as people cannot
> > check the license-information?
> >
>
> AFAIK, these clickable images are mainly used to direct either to other
> Wikimedia sister projects, or to really big portals. In the first case, the
> logos are the property of the Wikimedia Foundation. Is there any issue with
> not giving the license-information?
>
> In the second case, the images are used to direct people to pages which are
> symbolized by these images. I suggest the target page includes the image
> linking to it (classic image include, that links to the image description
> page). Thus, if people want to know the license-information, they have to
> click twice, but it's easier than to dig in templates.
>
> g.
>
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