Clockwise order isn’t the same as reading order. The correct order is:
- The top left image (because it says “from top left”)
- The top right image
- The bottom right image
- The bottom left corner
It helps if you imagine a circle around the images with arrows pointing in clockwise direction, like this:
They could have just put the images in reading order though, especially when there are only 4 of them. It would be way less confusing :/
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I believe this is because many languages will interpret that differently, and Wikipedia having contributors from around the world writing in different languages, decided that clockwise is a good universal instruction that is more difficult to mistranslate.
If the instructions were “left to right” and then “top to bottom”, a bad translation might end up making it mean the top to bottom first and left go right last.
In Arabic (and a few other languages too), things are read RTL, and plenty of Asian languages, at least traditionally, are read top to bottom first.
Doing it clockwise is seen as a more universal instruction I guess? And I don’t think it’s too hard to figure out. I might also be to make the instruction more concise!
Zagorath@quokk.au 1 day ago
Wikipedia has entirely different versions in different languages. This page is on the English Wikipedia.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
. having something consistent can reduce confusion among contributors, particularly for those who are translating pages between languages and 2. there are other reasons too, like making the instruction more concise