On Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:01 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 01/06/05, Phil Boswell
<phil.boswell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I suppose it would be too much to hope that we
could extend the {{}}
syntax to images, wherein {{Image:Some-nice_picture.jpg}} embedded the
image and [[Image:Some-nice_picture.jpg]] simply linked to the
description page?
Well, it might well be too much to hope that all articles on
Wikipedia, and all old versions of those articles, could be either
converted to obey that rule or somehow activate a
"backwards-compatibility" mode.
Besides, while it makes sense that displaying an image is an
inclusion, this doesn't actually extend very well to, for instance,
sounds - unless we go the route of embedding plugins, sounds will
always be more like a fancy link than an "inclusion". (For an example
of what I think such a "fancy link" might look like, see my mockup at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia#Software_features )
Hmm. If you link to a sound-file with {{Image:}} (or {{Sound:}} you'd want
to transclude it, even if the software won't let you. [[Sound:]] would then
be a link to the sound, and the overall manner of links would make more
sense.
Yours,
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