Thanks Brian. I do wonder why we would encourage a local description, when there is better value (IMO) in having additional language description to the file at Commons.
Regards, Billinghurst On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:28:46 -0300, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > tl;dr : The navigation tabs at the top of pages like > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg, are soon > going to look like > http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kiruna-Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet.jpg > > This is a small change, but its a UI change, so I thought a mail to > wikitech-ambassadors couldn't hurt. [[User:This,_that_and_the_other]] > recently made a cool change to how the tabs of image pages on local > wikis (wikipedia, etc) for files on commons, work. Previously such a > page displayed a "create" tab, and generally looked like what the tabs > look like for a page that doesn't exist. For example, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg . After this > change there will be tabs for "View this image on Wikimedia Commons" > and "Create local description" (or "Edit local description" if it > already exists). There will be no changes to file pages at commons, or > the file pages of locally uploaded files. > > The change is part of 1.23wmf22, and will probably go live on April 10 > to test.wikipedia.org/test2.wikipedia.org/mediawiki.org, non-wikipedia > sister projects on April 15, and Wikipedias on April 17. (See > deployment calender at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_deployments > for details on the deployment schedule ) > > You can view a screenshot of what it will look like at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_foreign_repo_file_tabs.png > . You can test it out for real right now at beta wiki > http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kiruna-Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet.jpg > > --bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
