https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40095

Brian McNeil <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Brian McNeil <[email protected]> 2012-09-08 
10:46:44 UTC ---
>From the point of view of Wikinews' requirements, this is a "kludge" that would
address a problem we have:

Say Commons has [[File:Spread of Zombie Apocalypse.png]] and, country by
country, people are developing a taste for brains.

If we publish an article [[n:Zombies reported in Paris]], including this file,
then someone looking at that article should always see the version where France
has just been coloured-in as infected.

If, later on, we publish [[n:New Zealand last Zombie-free nation]], then the
file included there should be the more-current version leaving that as the only
country not coloured in.

Unless there are far more-complex requirements that justify use of the External
images parameter, I would suggest the appropriate solution is to have another
parameter within [[File: ]] which accesses the version in-place on a specific
date.

Thus: [[File:Spread of Zombie Apocalypse.png|date=2012-11-01|...]] could be
used in one Wikinews article, and [[File:Spread of Zombie
Apocalypse.png|date=2012-12-21|...]] in a later article.

That isn't really a bug, but a feature request - and seems far more logical
than mucking about with the external images parameter.

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