Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-06-03 Thread Michael Dale
On 05/30/2013 06:28 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: OK, I decided to be slightly bold. I changed the modal video threshold on en.wiki from 200px to 800px. This means all video thumbnails that are 800px or smaller will open a modal player when you click on the thumbnail. If there are no complaints from

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-06-02 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 31/05/13 00:28, Ryan Kaldari a écrit : > > OK, I decided to be slightly bold. I changed the modal video threshold > on en.wiki from 200px to 800px. This means all video thumbnails that are > 800px or smaller will open a modal player when you click on the > thumbnail. If there are no complaints

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-31 Thread Fabrice Florin
itor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) On May 30, 2013, at 1:35 AM, wikitech-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > From: Erik Moeller > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within > articles >

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 5/30/13 1:34 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: Le 30/05/13 09:46, Ryan Kaldari a écrit : Does anyone think it would be a bad idea to just make modal viewing the default for thumbnailed videos? Be bold! To play it safe, you can make the feature protected with a global feature that we will slowly enab

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le 2013-05-30 06:21, Erik Moeller a écrit : Yes, better support for display of images through a modal viewer would be great. I'm not sure a "modal" parameter that has to be explicitly set for files is the best approach - I would recommend optimizing the default experience when a user clicks an i

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Petr Onderka
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:21 PM, billinghurst wrote: > > (On a side note, the TMH behavior should be improved to actually play > the video > > immediately, not require a second click to play in modal view.) > > Please NO, if there has to be anything please make it an preference that > users can t

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread billinghurst
> (On a side note, the TMH behavior should be improved to actually play the video > immediately, not require a second click to play in modal view.) Please NO, if there has to be anything please make it an preference that users can toggle, but have the default as OFF. There is more than Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 30/05/13 09:46, Ryan Kaldari a écrit : > Does anyone think it would be a bad idea to just make modal viewing the > default for thumbnailed videos? Be bold! To play it safe, you can make the feature protected with a global feature that we will slowly enable on all wiki and eventually phase out

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 30/05/13 05:49, Ryan Kaldari a écrit : > When you clicked on the thumbnail, instead of going to Commons, a modal > viewer would overlay across the screen and let you view the video/image > at high resolution I discovered yesterday that Commons as such a tool to browse pictures in a category.

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 5/29/13 9:21 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: Yes, better support for display of images through a modal viewer would be great. I'm not sure a "modal" parameter that has to be explicitly set for files is the best approach - I would recommend optimizing the default experience when a user clicks an image

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-30 Thread Brion Vibber
I tend to agree that a light box or other modalish zoom should become the default behavior. -- brion On May 30, 2013 5:50 AM, "Ryan Kaldari" wrote: > For years, I have weeped and wailed about people adding complicated maps > and diagrams as 220px thumbnail images to Wikipedia articles. These sor

Re: [Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-29 Thread Erik Moeller
Yes, better support for display of images through a modal viewer would be great. I'm not sure a "modal" parameter that has to be explicitly set for files is the best approach - I would recommend optimizing the default experience when a user clicks an image or video. It's not clear that the current

[Wikitech-l] showing videos and images in modal viewers within articles

2013-05-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
For years, I have weeped and wailed about people adding complicated maps and diagrams as 220px thumbnail images to Wikipedia articles. These sort of images are virtually useless within an article unless they are displayed at relatively large sizes. Unfortunately, including them at large sizes c