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.

TheDJ

 * I like the idea of moving the first paragraph above the infobox. It's way more logical to my expectations as a reader. The only reason that the infobox is where it is currently is due to the positioning on Desktop, requires it to be 'logically' above the first paragraph, but semantically and editorially there is no reason why it has to be there.
 * The lead images go nicely with the repositioned infobox. The duplicate nature and appropriateness of the selected image have me concerned. The editorial options here are very limited and this should be a focal point. As an desktop user, i want to be able to quickly find out what image has been selected, and I want to know how I can at least influence that decision.
 * WikiData descriptions have been a good experience for me so far. I do worry however that it again makes it a bit cluttered, but we can always remove them again. Also suggest making these more visible in the desktop site however, editors need to be able to check the reader experience on mobile in this regard.
 * Last edited at the bottom seems sensible. It's where users expect this information I think and I don't think it was particularly good at giving us a human face..
 * "Page issues + Disambiguation" i'm missing information on this front. Please explain this part further. Especially the disambiguation part.

Wikidata
"The description for the Wikidata item will be shown below the title. The purpose is to provide a very quick description that also helps to disambiguate." - has this been discussed, on Wikidata, with the Wikidata community? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:10, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Cropped images
Has the bug causing badly cropped images, which I identified when this method was used in the Android app, been resolved? I would consider it a blocker, if not. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:14, 18 August 2015 (UTC)