Last modified: 2014-08-25 14:20:02 UTC
Current behavior: If a file page contains no machine-readable attribution information, media viewer includes only a link to the project (e.g. Wikipedia itself) in the embed link. Expected behavior: Media Viewer should provide best-available attribution information in the embed link. Since we don't know if the file requires attribution and cannot predictably extract the author, linking to the File: page is likely the best-available information.
Is this what Rich was hinting at in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69292#c3 or is it a separate bug?
I don't know what Rich was hinting at, he hasn't told us. :)
Yeah, I thought you might have insider information somehow. Thanks anyway!
Dumb question: doesn't mediaviewer simply mimic the existing behavior of the "use this file" gadget in this situation?
Possibly. Technically, the "use this file" gadget does not exist on local wikis (only on Commons), and this issue will be most common for local file uploads where templates haven't been adopted yet to emit machine-readable metadata. Example: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:DFBEagle.svg (We should help fix some more of those templates, but the issue will remain for files without any standard templates.)
Ugh. Yes, a link to the File: page would be much superior in that case.
@Mark Holmquist - I am going from what I have read on de; Commons en: and meta: written by representatives of the respective communities that I trust. I want to avoid us doing the wrong thing, legally, ethically, morally and technically, and it seems to me that being inflexible is not consistent with that aim. Luis Villa (WMF Legal): I have commented on the legal aspect at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69292#c7 I am sure MV will be fabulous when it is finished.
