On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or .. sometimes the licensing and attribution information isnt > correct
In the common case, Media Viewer provides more prominent and appropriate attribution and license information than the File: page. The author name, license, license URL, and source URL are all immediately accessible below the image, whereas on the File: page there are sometimes screenfuls of metadata between the image and this crucial information. This is actually a pretty remarkable accomplishment given that this information comes from a huge number of different templates that vary across wikis. Media Viewer makes use of standardized CSS classes to extract metadata, and the team has actively worked with the community to broaden their use: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-March/000135.html Ultimately we'll want to use proper structured data for this, but these changes lay the groundwork, and there's already an API (used by Media Viewer but open to anyone) that exposes this information. Where no license is detected, Media Viewer still falls back to a "View license" link. The more problematic cases are where actual errors occur and important information is not extracted, and there will certainly inevitably be some cases where this happens, but this can only be worked on over time. The expectation that an unbounded problem like this is completely solved prior to deployment of a feature is unreasonable -- it's similar to TemplateData, in that the positive feedback loop into Media Viewer should actually help encourage more and consistent use of machine-readable data. > sometimes you get resolutions which are silly (especially > svgs at launch, but also slideshows on a file page include a very > large license logo) Can you give a specific, current example? > it takes extra clicks to get to the full-size version, It takes exactly one click using the "View original file" button. Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
