I actually agree with the encouraging people to go to commons, however there's probably a limit to what we can do with the tabs while still having a tab for creating local descriptions, which can be useful sometimes.
Of course translatewiki takes the approach of just disabling edits in the File namespace ( http://translatewiki.net/wiki/File:Example.png ), so there is always that. I think there was some suggestion of having an "edit on commons" tab but as the commit summary noted ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104182/ ) there is the potential for users to be confused about where they are editing and that suddenly they are on another site (doubly so if not a wikimedia wiki with no sul) Anyways, i should reiterate, the thanks should go to [[User:This,_that_and_the_other]] who actually pushed the change forward, all I did was send some outreach notices about it. Cheers, Bawolff On Apr 8, 2014 7:26 AM, "billinghurst" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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