Thumbnailed images/Feature Poll

Voting

It's probably helpful to get some idea of what design elements are popular, so:

Border around picture area

Should there be a border around the picture part?

• Yes
  1. Fabiform
  2. Hajor
  3. Elf
  4. Richard Cocks
  5. RadicalBender (light colors only, otherwise no)
  6. Shizhao (support RadicalBender)
  7. Den fjättrade ankan
  8. Sansculotte
  9. James F. (talk)
  10. Paul Pogonyshev (or else there should be a really large blank margin)
  11. Seth Ilys
  12. Willy
  13. Mountain
  14. Gaz
  15. Walter
• No
  1. Jamesday

Border around text area

Should there be a border around the text part?

• Yes
  1. Fabiform
  2. Hajor
  3. Elf
  4. Richard Cocks
  5. Shizhao
  6. Den fjättrade ankan
  7. James F. (talk)
  8. Paul Pogonyshev (same as above)
  9. Seth Ilys
  10. Willy
  11. Mountain
  12. Gaz
  13. Walter
• No
  1. Jamesday

Background color of text

Should there be a background color for the text which is different from the color of the page? (If yes dominates, we'll need to ask questions about that)

• Yes, I want a color in the background (color will be set later)
  1. Elf (like the gray that's currently used there)
  2. Richard Cocks
  3. Shizhao
  4. Den fjättrade ankan (the current gray is good)
  5. Sansculotte (better TOC-blue than grey)
  6. Paul Pogonyshev (any neutral light—gray or bluish etc.)
  7. Seth Ilys
  8. Gaz
• No color whatsoever
  1. Jamesday
  2. Fabiform
  3. GerardM 16:28, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  4. James F. (talk)
  5. RadicalBender 15:15, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  6. Willy
  7. Mountain
  8. Walter
• I do not like the current color (please, read again the voting options —they were changed— and re-submit your vote)
  1. AndrewKepert (hate the gray colour too. Make it white, with an option for a background colour if it is necessary for alpha'd images to appear as intended, e.g. [[Image:farboo.jpg|thumb|#eeeeee|son of foobar]])

Linking to the image description

What is the best way to link to the image description page and its version of the image? (see next question as well)

• Just the picture
  1. Jamesday
  2. — Alex756 | [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alex756 talk]
  3. Willy
  4. Walter
• Picture and a magnifying glass
  1. Elf
  2. Den fjättrade ankan
  3. Paul Pogonyshev (zoom_sans.gif is nice, but it's function is not immediately obvious)
  4. Alibaba (same as Paul)
  5. —Eloquence 17:46, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• Picture and zoom_sans.gif (see User:Sansculotte's proposals, below)
  1. Hajor
  2. Richard Cocks
  3. Shizhao
  4. Erik Zachte
  5. James F. (talk)
  6. Seth Ilys
  7. Mountain
  8. Gaz
• Picture and a text link
  1. Fabiform

Linking to a larger version

What is the best way to link to a larger version of the image (larger than on the image description page, may be a high resolution scan or full field picture photo, which has been clipped and scaled for display in one or more articles).

Is this feature being developed?

No idea. Seems obvious, though, with default being the image description page if that's the best we have. See en:Sinai Peninsula for one of several articles using derivatives of the same larger source image (Fertile Crescent or Nile Delta will use part of the left when I get around to it)and en:Image:Devonport Dockyard in 1909 plan.png for another example, where there's a converted and cropped display image to be thumbnailed for display in an article and a larger source image available. It's very common for very high resolution (tens of megabytes and above 1600x1200) to be available from NASA, for example, so a large version could be that reduced to perhaps a megabyte.

Could we get the default link to be to a simple display of the full image, not the image description page? The latter is a fairly horrible thing to take a reader (rather than a wikipedian) through to. I'm not clear how I have to vote to express this preference. user:seglea

• Just the picture
• Magnifying glass
  1. Jamesday
  2. Shizhao
  3. Den fjättrade ankan
  4. Sansculotte
  5. Willy
  6. Mountain
  7. Gaz
  8. Walter
• Text link
  1. Fabiform
  2. James F. (talk)

Display of caption text

How should the caption text be displayed?

• Normal text size and font (not italic. as it is on the current new markup)
  1. Fabiform
  2. Den fjättrade ankan
  3. Willy
• Small (as in editing help and most of the proposed examples so far)
  1. Jamesday
  2. Seth Ilys
  3. Hajor
  4. Elf (Although I kinda like italic too)
  5. Richard Cocks
  6. RadicalBender (and this may be a technical question that doesn't go here, but will it ever be possible to use wikicode or HTML in the caption?) — This is being developed, JeLuF pointed me to a page on test.wikipedia which contained thumbnail captions with wikilinks. :) Fabiform 13:07, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  7. Shizhao(Small and Italic, and allow use text link)
  8. AndrewKepert Small non-italic type is common for captions in books (scientific monographs, etc). Reading too much italic hurts the eyes.
  9. James F. (talk)
  10. Paul Pogonyshev (italic only if there's no border)
  11. Sansculotte
  12. Mountain
  13. Gaz
  14. Alibaba
  15. Walter

• Italic (as recently proposed in the style guide)
  1. Hajor

For text, I deliberately chose small rather than any fixed small point size, so it scales for those who have visual problems and have their browser set to use larger text than usual. Does anyone really want a fixed size - if you do, add away? Hopefully those will narrow down some of the choices a bit - or maybe suggest that we need preferences. Any additions? Jamesday 04:10, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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