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 <br...@pobox.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Daniel Zahn <dz...@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
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