Talk:Reading/Features/Article lead image

The suggested redesign aims at providing a different display of media and content that makes content display more consistent and helps a quicker flow of reading and extracting information from our articles. We are sharing the suggestions here in order to help voice out and incorporate community suggestions around the proposed alternative. Please feel free to list your suggestions below, and lets see how we can incorporate them in next iterations.

Thanks :) --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 21:23, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Looks great
Can't wait for it go live.--Anders Feder (talk) 23:56, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

discussion with Issara :)
Had a brief irc chat with Isarra and it went as below:
 * (PDT 04:58:02 ) Isarra: Well, images, and for some topics they can be particularly effective for not just telling folks they're in the right place, but also information about the topic, but they do have limitations. Too big and they make it harder to get to the actual content, and some folks also have very limited bandwidth on mobile (mine's so limited I never even use it unless I'm utterly desperate), but they do need to be big enough to actually show the thing.
 * (PDT 04:58:10 ) Isarra: And there's also some topics where they just won't do anything.
 * (PDT 04:58:51 ) Isarra: But if you can make a way for editors to actively choose the image, I could see it being very effective.
 * (PDT 04:59:49 ) Isarra: A bit like how they select images for featured articles on the mainpage, you can't assume the infobox will have anything relevant, or that the first image on the page in general will be appropriate
 * (PDT 05:04:42 ) Isarra: Or just be able to disable it entirely, in some cases. Set it to no image.