View it! is a tool in Development that will show users (editors, and hopefully readers) relevant Wikimedia Commons media depicting—or otherwise related to—the article they are reading. As the tool develops, this page will serve as a setup and help guide.
Image to accompany the View it! tool currently in development.
The View it! tool will enrich Wikipedia content by offering an illustration of a given subject. This tool will increase the discovery of Wikimedia Commons uploads and encourage contributors to utilize Commons and structured data. While the number of images displayed in a Wikipedia article is finite and highly curated by editors, this tool will allow readers to access the full catalog of images available on Wikimedia Commons, and help editors easily add relevant items to a given article.
This page will serve as a space to document, receive feedback and ideas from the community, and list upcoming related meetings and training. As the tool is developed, changes will be noted and sections will be updated.
Through View it! users will be able to see a gallery of related images derived from queries of structured data. While depicts (P180) is relevant to all subjects, other points may be used as well, such as collection (P195), creator (P170), location of creation (P1071) among others. The gallery may be displayed in different environments, such as:
A hosted Toolforge tool which users could link in their user interface (UI) when viewing an article; or
A button that loads the gallery within the Wikipedia article when clicked.
The tool will be useful to both editors and readers. For logged-in editors, there will be additional features that enable:
Removal of bad statements from Commons media, when unwanted results appear in the gallery (envision a one-click operation without leaving Wikipedia, with the tool utilizing a wbremoveclaims call on the backend).
Ability to add an image to an article being edited from the auto-generated gallery with a click. This may be a generated code for the user to copy into the source editor, or possibly insert an actual image into the editor.
View it! has multilingual support! Add missing languages by expanding the localization instructions below. You can also make edits to existing languages here.
There are two options for installing View it!, a full version integrate with the editing/reading experience and a lite version-- installation directions for each are the same, with slight code changes. To enable on all platforms:
Please note you may see an error message reading: The document contains errors. Are you sure you want to publish? when you click publish - this is a bug, and it will still work.
The project was funded for development by the Wikimedia Foundation's Structured Data Across Wikimedia project, and has a 6 month timeline. View it! will be completed by January 2023.
To share opinions, wishes, or ask questions please leave a message on the talk page. If you wish to reach a team member directly, please feel free to leave a message on our respective talk pages:
