On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote:
> just reading through and one issue that stands out with (e.g.:
> [[file:foo.png|thumb|no-viewer|…]]). format is that many of the small image
> files are embedded within infoboxes, templates and tables would it be more
> efficient to restrict media viewer to only images that use the syntax
> [[File:foo.jpg|thumb|....]] within an article body ignoring images embedded
> with in {{.....}} and encourage editors to shift flags, small icons, maps
> etc into templates.
>
MediaViewer uses the HTML code of the page to make decisions. Using the
wikitext directly would create way more problems than it would solve.
> Alternatively just use the [[file:Foo.jpg|*thumb* |....]] as the key for
> media viewer to display otherwise it just ignores the file
>
There are images that do not use that syntax but we want to display them,
for example infobox main images, gallery templates, images on the main
page...
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