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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On your last point, most images on commons use the information
template. I think it makes authorship bloddy obvious. Do you agree?

If so the best solution is to move free images to commons and use the
information template.



On 8/29/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've done some more mockups in a similar vein here:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebainer/thumbtest
> >
> > 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.
>
> I really like these. I don't think you've quite hit the perfect
> combination yet though, but you're close. Some thoughts:
>
> - The copyright symbol is a good idea, as it screams out "This image
> is not necessarily public domain"
> - The little hand just adds clutter, and is confusing when you
> actually have the mouse pointer over it
> - The "i in a box" is good, but needs something more to make it
> explicitly about the image.
> - It should be obvious that the image can and should be clicked on.
> - The (c) with the magnifying glass is sort of on the right track, but
> really hard to see. Took me a while to realise that that's what it is.
>
> Maybe a combination of the (C) and the (i) ? ("Copyright information"?
> - or is that too cute?) A (C) with a small hypertext link saying
> "credits"?
>
> Note in any case that even clicking that link doesn't really solve
> your problem: it's very hard to find the text that says "Photo taken
> by sannse". We really need to rethink how we present that information,
> so we have a single piece of text that says "This picture was taken by
> Wikipedia user sannse. You can reuse this image as long as you
> attribute her and follow [[these rules]]."
>
> Steve
>
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