The data currently returned by the imageinfo API assigns the author to "artist" and the source to "credit". Both of these are incorrectly labeled. In particular these labels make it difficult to figure out the proper attribution for the image, as it sounds like you should use "credit", but you should actually use "artist".
Version: master
Severity: normal
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rename extmetadata labels to be more intuitive | mediawiki/extensions/CommonsMetadata | master | +103 -74 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T71914 data labels in imageinfo API don't make sense | |||
| Duplicate | None | T59189 Rename key "Credit" to "FileSource" | |||
| Duplicate | Tgr | T59847 UsageTerms should be called LicenseLongName |
Not an API bug, it's just returning what deeper layers of MediaWiki give it. It sounds like you want the CommonsMetadata extension.
See T59189#605222 for the rationale behind the field names. In hindsight, I agree it was the wrong decision, but I am not sure it is worth changing all the field names now - the API has other serious limitations and will be eventually superseded by the structured data API when wikibase will be introduced to Commons.
Given how much the structured data project lags behind, I would be inclined to fix this now. @Anomie, is there any guidance on how such a breaking change to the API should be handled?
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107368/ mentions updaing "all known clients". Do we already have a list? A first step seems to make one.
MedaViewer, OCG, MobileFrontend/mobile apps, VisualEditor are the big ones AFAIK. There are a bunch of gadgets, bots and other tools - this search should find the ones on GitHub. We could also just log useragents for a while.
@Tgr: I would suggest changing:
And possibly:
Change 231505 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza):
Rename extmetadata labels to be more intuitive
Tgr's patch has been sitting in Gerrit for four months without comments / review.
How to proceed / who to review?
Change 231505 abandoned by Gergő Tisza:
Rename extmetadata labels to be more intuitive
Reason:
Structured media info will obsolete this extension (or at least its current output data structure) soon.
I'll be bold and decline. With file metadata being migrated to WikibaseMediaInfo, I see little value on working on CommonsMetadata.