On Oct 30, 2007 12:53 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Yes, it's true. All the more reason to fix it once. Most images on commons use the information template which does mostly do the right thing. ;)
{{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.
There are several enhancement requests in bugzilla with basically amount to "read data out of the image page so we can do things with it in the articles". It's a pretty reasonable request, no one has gotten around to implementing it yet. Perhaps I'll do it sometime.
You know, a tooltip might be a nice way to display attribution information, along with the caption.
I completely approve of tooltips. It would nice to make the tooltip Caption — author / License.
I also approve of creating a nice credits tab. And I'm not strongly opposed to appending credits information at the bottom of the page.
It's just the always visible inline stuff that I think is a problem.