Commons talk:Structured data/Get involved/Feedback requests/Renaming 'captions' and 'descriptions'

Media legend in Wikidata and structured captions

Looking at the caption on the sample image Naming of the Rabindranath Tagore Street in Berlin, 6 May 1961. Photo by Stöhr, from German Federal Archives, CC BY-SA 3.0. This would be great for the "media legend" field in Wikidata.

• Would all of this be the new "caption"?

• Is the caption the part other than the license (Naming of the Rabindranath Tagore Street in Berlin, 6 May 1961. Photo by Stöhr, from German Federal Archives), with the license appended automatically?

• Is the caption just the first part (Naming of the Rabindranath Tagore Street in Berlin, 6 May 1961), with the author, source, and license appended automatically?

I want to suggest "legend" as one of the new terms, but it would be confusing to use "legend" for a field that would not be used for (or as part of) "media legend" in Wikidata. - PKM (talk) 20:29, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

• In our current, preliminary spec of this feature, the caption would just be "Naming of the Rabindranath Tagore Street in Berlin, 6 May 1961". We'd want to keep this field focused on its main purpose, which is to provide context on the media and what it depicts. Author, source, license, etc is available in other fields and easily discoverable (especially once we implement structured licences). "Legend" could potentially work, and I think you have a good point about its potential use for the media legend qualifier on Wikidata items, however we'd like our concepts to make sense on their own, within Commons itself. Many of the files on Commons simply will never be attached to a Wikidata item, so ideally we may want to focus on nomenclature that is primarily focused on Commons use cases, and for things like media legend at Wikidata we may be able to do some mappings behind the scenes at the API level. RIsler (WMF) (talk)