Hi guys,
We would appreciate your advice on the Opt-out Feature for Media Viewer.
Our goal is to enable Media Viewer by default on all wikis when it the tool is
ready.
But as recommended by many in our onwiki and IRC discussions, we would also
like to provide a way for users to disable Media Viewer on a given site, so
they can opt-out from this feature if I don't want it.
To that end, we are considering these different options:
A. 'Enabled' user preference
Provide a preference checkbox with Media Viewer enabled by default (e.g.: 'Show
images in Media Viewer'). To disable MV, users can uncheck this preference.
• Pros: preferable from a UX point of view, indicates this is our
recommended option, more user-friendy than JS gadget option below
• Cons: this approach has caused problems before, users may not want
this option to be selected for them, adds to preference bloat issue
B. 'Disable' user preference
Provide a preference checkbox where Media Viewer can be disabled (e.g.:
'Disable Media Viewer'). To re-enable MV, users can uncheck that preference.
• Pros: addresses user concerns about pre-selection, more user-friendy
than JS gadget option below
• Cons: unclear what Media Viewer is, confusing because you have to
uncheck the preference to re-enable Media Viewer, adds to preference bloat issue
C. Javascript gadget or script
Provide a site-wide gadget (or personal JS script) that would let users disable
Media Viewer.
• Pros: no preference bloat, no cache fragmentation, can simply ride on
#263 and provide example JS code.
• Cons: not user-friendly (the gadget has to be installed manually),
the bootstrap script would still get loaded.
Notes
• If we implement a user preference, the recommended location would be in the
'Appearances' section, under 'Files'.
• We should also let power users know that they can easily use Ctrl-click or
Shift-click to bypass Media Viewer and access images the same way they used to
before this feature was introduced. So even with Media Viewer enabled, there
are shortcuts you can use to go directly to Commons if you like.
We would appreciate your advice on which of the options above would be most
helpful for the majority of our users (not just power users).
Please respond via email on this list — or add your comments on this discussion
page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Feedback_on_Opt-out_Feature
Next week, we will ask your advice about other high-priority features for Media
Viewer.
Thank you — and have a wonderful weekend!
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
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