On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a tricky one. I favour more image use, not less, but then I work > with images a lot (outside Wikipedia), so I'm kind of biased there. I
Yeah, I wonder if there is equally a pro-text/anti-image bias amongst some editors? (Me, I love images for skim reading - get a quick impression of a subject without having to read every word.) > do think that galleries that are large and purely illustrative are not > really suitable for Wikipedia. Honest question: what does "illustrative" mean in this context? Any image is "illustrating" something. Are you distinguishing between decoration (say, lots of pretty pictures of similar things) and adding information? >Commons *categories* are not the > equivalent of Wikipedia galleries, but you can create *pages* on > Commons that you can arrange into galleries and divide into sections > and annotate as needed. True, but putting effort into crafting such galleries on Commons seems...misplaced. I care about the encyclopaedia. And no one has ever heard of Commons. And no one ever goes there to find out more about a subject. Ever. > I do think that a section or article paragraph > on (say) waterfalls in a National Park known for having many > waterfalls could have a limited gallery of a few waterfalls, but > something showing *all* of them would either have to be part of a > standalone article, or a wikibook on the topic, or a Commons page, and > you should be able to link all three directly from the article > section, rather than hiding the link away down the bottom of the > article. Well I think there's only half a dozen or so in that national park. And there are only photos of two. (And excellent photos at that.) > It is mainly a question of layout and placement and context, > and can sometimes require creative thinking. The key is always to make > the reader *aware* that image-rich resources are available, but not to > shove the images in their faces. Give the reader options, but don't > force-feed them. Yep. Wish there were better tools for this. An expanding box with one or two images shown as a teaser would be great. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
