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Tgr added projects: MediaWiki-File-management, Structured-Multimedia-Data,
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Herald added projects: Multimedia, Wikidata.
TASK DESCRIPTION
Currently, Commons (and MediaWiki in general) does not have the concept of an
image title / short description, which could be used as a short caption or part
of a credit line. We have several things that are somewhat similar but they all
have serious deficiencies:
* file name: monolingual, tends to be either uninformative (because the
uploader has chosen it poorly and renaming is too much effort), extremely long,
or both. Also needs to be unique which often results in the inclusion of
sequence numbers or irrelevant details.
* Commons description: almost always extremely long, can contain complex HTML.
* image caption: monolingual, can be long or contain complex HTML, sometimes
it's not really about the image.
* Commons {{[[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Artwork | Artwork
]]}} or {{[[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Book | Book ]]}}
template title field: only available for a tiny fraction of images, sometimes
not exactly a title but an unstructured mess of e.g. all the titles the image
is known under
* Wikidata title: only available for a tiny fraction of images
It would be nice to have a dedicated title field which is 1) short enough
that it can be used in various concise contexts (the two main ones being
one-liner image credit and a minimal informative thumbnail caption).
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122381
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