[WikiEN-l] Making damn sure image attribution is very clear

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 8/26/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done some more mockups in a similar vein here:
> These mockups are all achieved with wikitext (and a little HTML) but
> obviously something like this would be implemented by way of a
> MediaWiki message.

Any ideas on how to handle this for captionless images and for really
small images?

I've added another proposed look to your page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebainer/thumbtest

The thought behind my proposal is that the universal copyright symbol
is more likely to express the importance of the information behind the
link. The hand icon signifies something that you can click on.

In terms of encouraging proper image-reuse this is even better than
simply providing the authors name, since it encourages people to look
at the license information as well.  If we ever implement bug9616
(http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9616) we could change
the icon depending on the license... Or do so for logged in users.

I've also made it replace the pre-existing caption icon, so it doesn't
consume any additional screen real-estate.

I've overlapped the image slightly, which may cause some problems in
IE... but if we actually wanted something like that style both
possible sources of problems (broken z-index handling and PNG
transparency) can be worked around.