El_Grafo added a comment.
In T166094#8166800 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166094#8166800>, @Pigsonthewing wrote: > There were several significant, detailed objections, which were not refuted. When I wrote "positive response" I meant that people at Commons //in principle// think that it would be a good idea to provide alt texts in one way or another. Afaict, there were 3 objections: 1. "Alt text is context dependent" - that shouldn't keep us from //offering// general purpose //default// alt texts like "a basket full of mushrooms on a wooden table" that can be **overridden** with existing syntax: [[File:foo.jpg|thumb|description|alt=specific alt text]]. No counterarguments have been made against this. 2. "Alt text is language dependent" - so what, that's not an argument against providing alt text. That's an argument for making sure it is provided in a multi-lingual manner. 3. there were concerns about the best way to implement the whole thing. These were beside the point of the proposal at Commons. I don't think anybody disagreed that is should be done via SDC in one way or another. Whether that's best done through a new property, something akin to the already existing multi-lingual "captions" or something else is not really something the Commons community can decide. So what exactly are we arguing about here? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166094 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: El_Grafo Cc: Chidgk1, El_Grafo, Metamorforme42, SyntaxTerror, Nikki, DrMel, Sdkb, Base, FRomeo_WMF, Multichill, CBogen, Conny, putnik, KH32, Ainali, Michael, Abbe98, Pigsonthewing, Bugreporter, Tgr, Dvorapa, thiemowmde, Lydia_Pintscher, Izno, Whatamidoing-WMF, Aklapper, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, bwang, Invadibot, Mooeena, GFontenelle_WMF, maantietaja, Y.ssk, Muchiri124, ItamarWMDE, Nintendofan885, Akuckartz, Nandana, JKSTNK, Lahi, Gq86, E1presidente, Ramsey-WMF, Cparle, SandraF_WMF, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Orienteerix, Tramullas, Acer, LawExplorer, Flycatchr, Salgo60, Zppix, Silverfish, _jensen, rosalieper, Taiwania_Justo, Scott_WUaS, Susannaanas, Volker_E, Ixocactus, Wong128hk, Fuzheado, Jane023, Wikidata-bugs, matthiasmullie, aude, Daniel_Mietchen, Dinoguy1000, Ricordisamoa, Wesalius, Raymond, Steinsplitter, Mbch331, Jay8g
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