this is may be a long-shot, but what about allowing all files from the /images/ 
directory and excluding images from any other directory? the assumption being 
that icons and other "helper" images will come from directories other than 
/images/.

On May 19, 2014, at 00:38 , Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:13 AM, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> The main page seems to be such an obscure case that it might be adressed when 
> we have a better idea than forcing millions of exception edits what you think?
> 
> Obscure in what sense? I would expect mainpage images to get more clicks than 
> all those exceptions.
> 
> Anyway, do you have examples of exceptions were adding either link= or 
> class="metadata" would not be a good idea even irrespective of MediaViewer? 
> Most exceptions I've seen so far would benefit from either being marked as 
> not part of the article content, or marked as "not really an image but 
> something tricky" (CSS magics - a lot of other tools than lightboxes will 
> have trouble with these). Also, for most "tricky" images going to the 
> description page on click is really horrible behavior (see e.g. this issue).
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