On 14 June 2013 11:48, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the answers, James.
>
> If it is a standard search, the results for languages other than English
> will be quite poor and I am not sure how the Solr migration could help in
> that regard.
>
You're right, sorry, I should have been clearer.
> Image tagging with Wikidata items could be more effective for i18n. If
> there are already plans to make it happen, that is unknown to me.
>
Yes, I think this would be a good improvement in general (as well as for
VisualEditor), but I also have not heard of anyone taking this work
forward. I discussed it briefly at the Amsterdam Hackathon in May with the
Wikidata team as a possible future project, but nothing more than that.
> About the gallery, maybe you could take a look to the proposed gallery and
> comments? ("Redesigning the <gallery> tag.")
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2013-June/thread.html
I replied on design-l; it seems that the discussion has been forked, which
is unhelpful. Will re-post my comments there.
> I like that bawolff's proposal is less gridded, but of course, that is
> only my subjective perception. Maybe there is room for collaboration there.
>
Absolutely. :-)
> Things I missed in the VE's image gallery:
> - a way of accessing the Commons file page
> - a more clear highlighting (maybe slightly enlarging the image)
> - double-click to insert
>
I have put these into https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49662 so
we keep track of them.
> But other than that, for a first release it works quite well :)
>
Thank you!
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
[email protected] | @jdforrester
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