Instead of introducing complicated syntax, would it not be better that media viewer only displays thumbs?
Rupert Am 16.05.2014 20:00 schrieb "Fabrice Florin" <[email protected]>: > Hi guys, > > We’ve been discussing the various proposals on this thread and don’t see a > strong consensus yet. > > This lack of consensus in our email discussions so far may suggest that > our original proposal to use a separate class may not be the best solution > for this issue. > > We are growing concerned that using a separate class (e.g. ’noviewer’) > could introduce more confusion and inconsistency, with some editors > disabling certain images in some places, but not in others. > > So we would like to propose a simpler approach, which would be to use > existing methods to disable Media Viewer for some images, as proposed in > the FAQ draft below. > > What do you guys think of that approach? > > At Fae’s suggestion, I started an onwiki discussion for this proposal: > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#How_to_disable_MediaViewer_for_some_images > > Feel free to respond onwiki or via email, as you prefer. > > Thanks for your guidance :) > > > Fabrice > > > ________________________ > > PROPOSED HELP FAQ > > ==How can I disable Media Viewer for unrelated or unsuitable images?== > Sometimes, Media Viewer displays images that are confusing for our users. > This includes metadata images (e.g. small icons, flags), which are not > related to the page's topic; other images do not render well and are not > suitable for Media Viewer (such as maps using weird CSS/JS tricks, or > images which use a clipping template). > > We invite editors to prevent these images from appearing in Media Viewer, > using one of these two methods: > * For metadata images, simply add this "metadata" class for unrelated > images like icons or flags: > <code><nowiki><span > class="metadata">[[File:Foo.jpg]]</span></nowiki></code> > * For images that are not metadata, but which don’t really render well in > Media Viewer, consider using > a > '[[:w:Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax#Images_that_link_somewhere_other_than_the_image_description_page|link > parameter]]' to disable them in Media Viewer: > <code><nowiki>[[File:Foo.jpg|link=]]</nowiki></code> <br> > To enable users to access file information, consider adding a link in the > file’s caption, so people can still access its file information page: > <code><nowiki>|[[:File:Foo.jpg|Learn more]]</nowiki></code> > > Other methods may be available to exclude images in Media Viewer, but we > encourage community editors to start marking metadata images right > away, using the first method above, since that is work that should be > taking place anyway. > > (End of proposed FAQ) > > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > >
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