When I go to today’s date on Wikipedia, I see that a lot of famous people have birthdays today. I don’t recognize all of the names.<\/p>\n
But I’ll bet that in many cases, I would recognize the faces. And that might make it more likely that I would click on that person to learn more about them.<\/p>\n
The way things are now, in order to see the person’s face, I can do one of two things: Either I hover my mouse over their name for a bit (which may or may not show me their face) or I click to go to their actual Wikipedia entry.<\/p>\n
In a more fully realized version of the Web, there should be a way for me, as an ordinary user, to specify custom visual filters for the page I am viewing. I might want to specify, for example, that every place a person’s name appears as a link, I want my browser to go to that page behind the scenes, fetch the first image of a person it finds, and paste it onto the page I am looking at.<\/p>\n
You could do this now, but you would need serious programming chops. And that is not ideal.<\/p>\n
Would it be difficult to create an easy way for non-programmers to have that kind of capability? I hope not, and I think it would be a cool thing for somebody to work on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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