I was a little surprised when, when I clicked on the information icon, I was thrown into the Commons. I think it's better then to indicate with an icon where the link leads, as in MediaViewer.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Open | None | T258585 Create popup tab with extended information instead of link to Common in VideoJS player | |||
| Declined | None | T258573 Change 'information' icon to 'commons' icon |
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Not all videos are on Commons. In reality we just need a better attribution method (so T258585), but AGAIN, there is 0.0005 resourcing and interest for this effort from WMF, so this will have to do until the moment they seriously take interest.
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An average Wikipedia reader is not going to have any idea what a tiny Commons logo means, but they will have some idea what the information icon is for, even if they don't expect it to take them to Commons. Either way, something like T258585 seems like a better solution in the long term.