On 5 May 2014 15:51, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I would also recommend that we optimize for option 2 and use canonical > > (English) namespace name for all files hosted on Commons, which is the > > primary use case. > > Doesn't it matter more where the file is _displayed_ rather than where > it's hosted? > > As a user, if I'm displaying a file in its German Wikipedia context, > chances are pretty good I'll want to embed it in a German Wikipedia > article, irrespective of whether the file is hosted on Commons. And > there, people will be annoyed if I embed it as [[File:]] rather than > [[Datei:]]. > > In any case, this seems like a case where whatever the community > preference is should just win (with the possible exception of the > newbie-unfrlendly option 3) from a product perspective. >
If I'm looking at an image hosted on Commons on the German Wikipedia and copy the wikitext to paste it into an article on the Spanish Wikipedia (which is quite likely – say I'm helping improve the Spanish article based on the existing excellent German one, and am hoping to re-use some of the images), then (a) it won't work if you use "Datei:", and (b) I don't think the Spanish community would be particularly happy that the wishes of the German community were respected over the wishes of the Spanish community for the wikitext to actually work. :-) As a user, the most important thing is that it works correctly. Everything else is a bonus. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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