Automatically insert image recommendations into infobox for German
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	HNordeenWMF
	Mar 18 2025, 12:06 AM

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For the Android "Article images" suggested edits, we automatically add the image into the top of the article. On English, we have accounted for a few of the most popular types of infoboxes, and add the image there when possible. However because each language does templates differently, we did not account for every language and every template.

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For German Wikipedia, add article images into the infobox for the top 5 types of infoboxes

(Request broken out from T383765), example diff of image not being added to infobox and then being corrected https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CipSoft&diff=251769699&oldid=251762022

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open	BUG REPORT	None	T383765 Issues with Image Licensing, Placement, and Duplication in Image Recommendations
		Open		None	T389155 Automatically insert image recommendations into infobox for German

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HNordeenWMF created this task.Mar 18 2025, 12:06 AM

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HNordeenWMF mentioned this in T383765: Issues with Image Licensing, Placement, and Duplication in Image Recommendations.Mar 18 2025, 12:07 AM

Dbrant moved this task from Needs Triage to Product Backlog on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog board.Mar 18 2025, 4:08 PM

For German Wikipedia, add article images into the infobox for the top 5 types of infoboxes

@HNordeenWMF (cc @ARamadan-WMF) This would probably need to be a question for the community, to determine which infoboxes are most commonly used.

It's not just a matter of the names of the infobox templates, but also the names of the parameters within those infoboxes that specify the image file and caption.
For example, Infobox Unternehmen (from the example edit in the task) uses the parameter Logo for the image, whereas Infobox Raumfahrer uses foto as the parameter, whereas Infobox Virus uses Bild as the parameter, and there are likely others.

@Dbrant , @HNordeenWMF ,
We’ve started the conversation with the German Wikipedia community about this, and you can follow the responses here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Vorlagen/Werkstatt#Vom_Wikipedia_Android_Team:~:text=Unsubscribe-,Vom%20Wikipedia%20Android%20Team,-%5Bedit%20source

Johannnes89 subscribed.Apr 16 2025, 1:11 PM

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