Last modified: 2012-12-19 15:21:11 UTC
I'd like to request a new parameter for image and gallery tags to display the file's file size and dimensions for images. Let's call it "fileinfo". <pre>[[File:Example.jpg|300px|thumb|fileinfo]]</pre> This would return e.g. "400×300 (24 KB)" in the thumb. <pre>[[File:Example.jpg|300px|thumb|Bla - |fileinfo]]</pre> This would return e.g. "Bla - 400×300 (24 KB)" in the thumb. <pre><gallery perrow="3" fileinfo="true"> File:Example1.jpg|Bla 1 File:Example2.jpg|Bla 2 - File:Example3.jpg|Bla 3<br> File:Example4.jpg| File:Example.ogg|Bla x File:Example.pdf|Bla y </gallery></pre> This would would return a gallery with the file info behind the file's caption, e.g. "Bla 2 - 400×300 (24 KB)" or "Bla 3 400×300 (24 KB)". If you decide to add the fileinfo in green as on search results a seperator may not be urgely needed as in the example above. May be smart to also allow file info in galleries per file: <pre><gallery perrow="3"> File:Example1.jpg|Bla 1|fileinfo File:Example2.jpg|Bla 2|fileinfo File:Example3.jpg|Bla 3|fileinfo File:Example4.jpg|Bla 4|fileinfo File:Example.ogg|Bla x File:Example.pdf|Bla y </gallery></pre> This would return the file info behind the only behind the 4 image captions. I wonder why Commons didn't request it yet or created an own solution. It seems so handy to me. I changed getShortDesc() in Generic.php so it displays KB instead of bytes which is pretty useless for files btw ;)
I think this would be better off as a parser function, like {{#fileinfo:Foo.jpg}}
indeed. could be used more flexible.
For the interested ones: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageSizeInfoFunctions
extensions exist for this.
(In reply to comment #4) > extensions exist for this. => WORKSFORME.