Thread:Jemann/@comment-6042046-20130602031510

This is cut from a conversation I had with Aximillio: "Also, does right work?"

Yes. |left and |right don't frame the image. |thumb frames the image and provides a link to its individual file page through the small paper-and-magnifying-lens icon. It has also the effect of telling you who uploaded the image.

I like to credit people properly, but I also think the uploader's name and miniature avatar in a |thumb frame are distracting. The reading experience here would be more immersive if we could remove the editor avatars; leaving their names should be enough. It's kinda odd that a thumbed image has that sort of credit system but nothing else does...? I mean, you don't see the names of people who contributed to a page unless you read its History.

If there's a way to display a page's latest revision info (editor name and date) between the Categories and Comments, it'd be great to use. It's not simply a matter of acknowledging others' contributions; at a glance, we'd be able to tell how long it's been since a page was touched. If 2-3 years have passed, the page would be worth a followup check in the game. It would help with maintenance, making sure everything's current and correct.

For example - I read a page and see this note beneath the Categories section: "This page was last edited by Neonix on March 3, 2011." It'd remind me to test the page's contents in FL to see if it's still up-to-date. Or maybe if I naturally encountered the page's contents next time, I'd find the wiki page again to compare. It'd be a little alert note. 