Please don't. The current syntax is nice, concise, consistent and not overflowing with special characters. The proposed one is verbose and "looks technical". But defaulting to thumb seems like a good idea to me (but we ought to make some usage stats first :) ).
2012/9/1, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Daniel Zahn dzahn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Maybe we could have "large","medium","small" etc as aliases for standard/popular sizes to encourage using less of the non-standard ones?
I kinda like this. It would also be nice if simply including an image defaulted to some sane size, even without using explicit "|thumb".
In fact, we should think about just redoing how images get included in the first place maybe. :P
I'd kind of like to see something like this:
{{#media:Foobar.jpg}} <- default to a nice size, displayed in some nice-looking way suitable to the output. Sane framing and positioning typical for most usages.
{{#media:Foobar.jpg|caption=Hello this is my caption about [[stuff]]. Enjoy!}} <- caption should probably be an explicitly named parameter
- Consider having *no size option* at all. :)
- Definitely don't have "left" "right" or "center" options.
- Consider making it easy to collect multiple related photos together, like
<gallery>.
Or maybe we should just use <gallery> more aggressively and make it a billion times prettier...
For the more icon-like uses, maybe an explicit inline-media function:
{{#inline-media:Foobar.svg|24x24px}}
Anyway.... this needs more thought. But for a lot of images, we don't really *need* to be manually specifying every detail of their layout. It feels like it would be nicer to say "stuff these photos, with these captions, into this section of the article" and let the wiki deal with laying them out.
Note that in mobile/tablet contexts it's also very handy to be able to extract just the photos and provide them for separate browsing; this has influenced my thinking on this for sure.
-- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l