Talk:Featured image proposals
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Consensus?
"Once consensus is reached here"...
How can this consensus be reached? Is there any disussion? Where can I see the consensus for "The cycle map with contours" which appeared on the main page so fast? --Plenz 10:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- There's a secret Cabal meeting every friday that decides these things. No.. But seriously, if there is ever a problem then consensus will have to be reached, until then it's managed by people that have something to contribute. Erik Johansson 09:43, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
- That consensus text is misleading - currently I pick featured images arbitrarily with no discussion. Would anyone prefer a different system? Ojw 20:05, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Please link to full size images
It would be nice if the thumbnails would link to the full size images. The latest featured image is nothing more than (totally nice) advertisment for the site (http://www.norc.ro/), not quite an image that one can look at. It could link to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Norc.jpg instead from where one can easily get the real image.
Also please do not use blurry resampled map images for the same reason. Two examples of bad images:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Where-can-i-live.png
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Coventry-ring-road-20080713-osma-z16-scaled.png
- An alternative view might be that the website *is* the full-size view, since it includes not only the sample of map shown in the image, but the rest of the area as well?
- The (i) icon will always link to the image itself. Does that work in your browser (can you see the blue i?)
- I agree it's disappointing when people upload a 'specially resized' image when the wiki is perfectly capable of doing the resizing. Ojw 12:07, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, if I had known the blue "I" does link to the full-sized image, I would not have mentioned it. Thanks! That is not very intuitive though. It looks like part of the image itself. Maybe it could simply be shown outside the image? Or a text like "Show full-size image" at the bottom next to "Other featured images" (it looks like that would fit)?
- Maybe you could add a paragraph at the top of the proposal page about the full images (if no-one objects)? For example: "Please do not rescale your image before uploading. The wiki does that for you. Some people will appreciate the full-sized image." My english is not that nice, so maybe this sounds weird. Cheers! HannesHH 10:38, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Suggestion
This Wikipedia article is a nice example of innovative OSM map usage. Since everything here is about image proposals, I wonder if someone could make a good image where the entire page is seen, or at least parts of it. My resolution and image making skills aren't nearly enough to do it myself. Thanks. /Grillo 18:46, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
IotW should have english information
An image of the week should at least have some english information available: See Talk:Main_Page#Image_of_the_week_2010-51 - no essential information about how to use it in english ... really bad timing for the christmas break where we might have some more vistitors ... -- Schusch 08:46, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Suggestion: Show new proposed images first: flip the list and move old ones to the end of the page
The page containing image proposals is rather long as some pictures are here since 2008. I suggest to flip the list and advice users to add their new images to the top of the page, i.e. make a “last in, first out” list instead of a “first in, first out” one. Thus it will be no longer needed to scroll down every time you want to see new stuff. I'll do that if someone agrees with me about that and there will be no disagreements. Kachkaev 19:11, 3 July 2011 (BST)
- Is there a problem with pressing the "End" key to go straight to the bottom of a page? --seav 21:16, 3 July 2011 (BST)
Image licenses
It would be useful for featured images to explicitly state their licenses on the image description pages, preferably using standardised Templates. The images presented here are mostly well-suited for use outside of the OSM wiki (we advertise them on the Press page, for example), so I'd be happy if people would check for clear license information when proposing an image. --Tordanik 11:34, 7 September 2011 (BST)
