Talk:Attribution API

Nice feature -- about time!

I remember having conversations about the need to have better attribution practices for Wikimedia Commons photos for a looooong time -- nice to see this finally deployed. Congrats to the team! Scann (WDU) (talk) 20:53, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing + feedback

Hi Team, from the bottom of my heart... thanks!. I dreamed about this few years ago -when I developed a tool to review WLM photos- but today, around 10 years later, it's a reality! The feedback -or question- is about attribution of embedded files into articles: in the example, Earth has a lot of images. Are there any plan about this? I imagine to include by using a query modifier (ie: ?include_media). Superzerocool (talk) 11:35, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the question/suggestion! We are actively considering what to do about this, and are anxious to see how folks will use it out in the wild to help inform what to do next with embedded media. You're right that articles increasingly feature many images, and intentionally so. One other aspect that we've been looking into is if people will request images from within the article, or if they will more consistently reference commons directly. My gut hunch is the former, but we're going to see what happens and adjust accordingly. Your idea is very interesting too, and I would love to hear more input on if that's how people would want and expect it to work, especially if they are most interested in the article content itself. Thanks for the suggestion! HCoplin-WMF (talk) 14:03, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Just adding that I've created this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424037 I personally think that it makes more sense to have the collection returned as a dedicated endpoint so that our REST responses remain well structured and reliable. In other words, while the `expand` pattern is common in REST, dynamically adding content is generally not. So it feels more 'right' to make it a dedicated endpoint than a query parameter. Would love your thoughts though! HCoplin-WMF (talk) 14:56, 21 April 2026 (UTC)