Thanks, Bawolff. From an end-user perspective, I like the idea of making the tag part of the file embedding syntax, as you propose (e.g.: [[file:foo.png|thumb|no-viewer|…]]).
I defer to our development team on how much more work that would entail. We now only have a few hours per week allocated to Media Viewer feature development, so we’re leaning towards the most expedient solutions right now. Even if we start with just a class name right now (e.g. '.no-viewer'), that name that could eventually be re-used when we have time to make it part of the file embedding syntax, for consistency purposes. BTW, I like ’no-viewer’ because it’s short and very explicit — and even if it’s loosely tied to the Media Viewer, it seems open-ended enough to be used by other apps in the future. -f On May 12, 2014, at 2:54 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 12, 2014 4:32 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > We would appreciate your help to come up with a class name that community > > members can use to exclude an image from Media Viewer or related tools. > > > > Too many small files (like icons, flags, etc.) appear in Media Viewer for > > some articles, even though they are unrelated to the topic of the article. > > Other image files also need to be excluded, because they are not suitable > > for Media Viewer (such as maps using weird CSS/JS tricks, or images which > > use a clipping template). > > > > Many community members have reported this issue, which delivers an > > unpleasant browsing experience for users who only want to view images that > > are relevant for the article they are reading (and which are supported by > > Media Viewer). > > > > We agree that this is an important issue. The most practical way to address > > it would require editors to add a .metadata class to the images they don’t > > want to show on a page, as proposed here: > > > > https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/511 > > > > We just need to come up with a class name people are happy with for > > excluding an image from Media Viewer or related tools. We already exclude > > images which have a .metadata class, but there are images that aren't > > really metadata but still not appropriate. > > > > Any ideas? What class name do you recommend we use to convey this important > > information? > > > > Here are some possible ideas, to get this conversation started; > > * hide > > * exclude > > * noshow > > * ?? > > > > It would be best if we agreed on a name that is not tied to Media Viewer, > > so it can be used by other tools which may have the same needs, now or in > > the future. > > > > Once we settle on a class name, we can schedule that feature for > > development, so editors can filter out unsuitable images for everyone’s > > viewing pleasure :) > > > > Thanks for your feedback! > > > > > > Fabrice > > > > _______________________________ > > > > Fabrice Florin > > Product Manager, Multimedia > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Multimedia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > > > > Probably much harder to implement... but it might be more consistent to have > it as part of the file embedding syntax. E.g. > [[file:foo.png|thumb|no-viewer|...]] > > --bawolff > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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