Brion Vibber wrote:
On ĵaŭ, 2003-01-02 at 08:25, Magnus Manske wrote:
On
test.wikipedia.org, I added my
proposed"alt" attribute for images if
no explicit description is given in the link.
[[image:foobar.jpg]] will have the description of [[image:foobar.jpg]]
as alt attribute, while
I don't think that's a good idea. The description page often enough
contains the site of origin, contributor, copyright information,
sometimes the f-stop and date of photography, links to related images
(as in a sequence), notes on usage...
Yes, it might contain all that. OTOH, I remember writing some image
descriptions for the "visually impaired" (is that the correct political
expression at the moment?) at back Nupedia (actually, Ruth Ifcher wrote
most of them;-), and there's no way a text like that could fit into
[[image:foobar.jpg|Description]].
AFAIK, the description *should* go into the [[image:foobar.jpg]]
article, not into the articles that use the image.
I say better give more information than needed than none at all.Of
course, I'm open for better ideas...
Magnus