On 10/30/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
You have terrible taste. Prepare to die. *stab* *stab*
Ow. Ow. Stop that.
Thou shall not code the autorship data redundantly. The data you want
is on the image page.
Not really. It may be possible for a human to deduce the authorship information, but it's not "data". I'm actually guilty of this - many of my photos say "Taken by me." Ugh.
Do not copy it into the page text. Multiple
copies invite bitrot, vandaism, human error, and increase work.
Yes, that is true. How about this:
{{image|Foo.jpg|This is a foo.|showauthor}}
Obviously this would require: - Some mechanism to indicate on the image page what should be shown as "authorship" information - A change to the {{image}} tag itself to recognise and display the information - Some css? to control the display of the information.
You know, a tooltip might be a nice way to display attribution information, along with the caption.
Steve