On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. :-)
Yeah, I get that this scenario is the one we're trying to prevent - I wonder which one is more common in practice. It also seems we're using the locally used caption as part of the embed markup, so that part would need to be adapted anyway. Since this is just a panel that's available on-demand anyway, perhaps having an additional dropdown switch to select English/canonical vs. project-local namespaces/keywords would be handy if it can be made not too clutter-y. Example: [ Use German language markup - works on this wiki ^ ] Use English language markup - works on any wiki This would only be shown on wikis with non-English content language. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
