lots of pretty pictures of similar things No
Fred > 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
