Module talk:InfoboxImage

Alt text versus title text

Hello,

The module currently uses the alt text as title text when no title text is provided; alt text and title text are not the same thing, so this doesn't seem a good idea to me... The alt text is supposed to provide information that can replace the image's graphics, whereas the title text is a possibility to supplement the image's graphics with additional information. Currently, if a visual description of the image is passed as alt text, the module also displays it as a title text, even though it isn't relevant there (see the infobox in Template:Oldid2 for an example).

Shouldn't this be changed? (Quickly scrolling through this page, I see that this behavior was Template:Diff2 by WOSlinker following the #Error in the code discussion above.)

Cos-fr (talk) 09:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Agreed that this is a bad idea. Agents processing the page source expect the title text to be extra information that can be meaningfully displayed alongside the image; with alt text this tends to have awkward results. To give a specific example, MediaViewer displays title text as the image caption; if there is no title text, it fetches a caption from other sources (such as the image description page). No title text gives much more meaningful results than alt text duplicated as title text. --Tgr (WMF) (talk) 01:22, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion: landscape

Template:Ping some infoboxes, like Template:Infobox church, uses |landscape=yes. Maybe it could be imported in this module somehow? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 10:32, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it could be included in the module directly as the code appears to be specific to that infobox. However, I have updated Template:Infobox church/sandbox to use InfoboxImage and including the landscape option. This could be copied over to the live template if you are happy with it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:07, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Template:Ping I think there could be some three params in the template code |landscape={{{landscape|yes}}}, |landscape x=250, |landscape y=300, or something like that. The rest of the code should be the same for all templates, I think. About the sandbox version - thanks, but I haven't used it, that was just an example :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:55, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Error when parameter missing

This edit, applying this module, seems to be the cause of the error showing on this page. Template:Diff fixed it, but the error needs a permanent solution. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:44, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

There's no way to catch the error here; it needs to be fixed in Module:Wikidata. Alakzi (talk) 10:53, 24 June 2015 (UTC)