Community Wishlist/Wishes/When clicking on the file-info button, open the Wikimedia Commons page directly
Description
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When clicking on the button encircled in red underneath any media file (image, video, other), please open the Wikimedia Commons page directly instead of showing some intermediate Wikipedia page.
In this case, when clicking on it from Cosmology, en:File:The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.jpg is opened rather than Commons:File:The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.jpg. One first has to click on "description page there" in the box underneath the image that says "This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.". I think most users don't do so and whether or not is somewhat irrelevant: this is a redundant intermediary step that is not helpful.
The main problem is that this page does not include the WMC categories of the file. These can be very useful to the reader, for example to find more images of the same series or to find similar images, to get some contextual information / metadata on the image such as the year taken, and so on. Files are laboriously organized using these categories and there's no reason to not show them on the page shown when clicking on file info.
Maybe the reason for this intermediary page is that Google and DuckDuckGo nearly don't index media on WMC (don't know how that can be legal) so having an intermediary WP page improves this a bit at least for those files that are used on some Wikipedia. Otherwise, I can't see any potential reason why these pages are used but if there are more I doubt these could not be addressed otherwise.
When clicking on "More details" in the Media Viewer (after clicking on the image), the WMC page is opened directly. Also I noticed the button highlighted above has different functions from time to time – sometimes it opens the intermediary page and sometimes it opens the image in the Media Viewer. Lastly, if the Media Viewer is deactivated please also open the WMC page directly instead of putting this page in between.
Similar wish: Shortcut for images from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons.
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
System change
Related projects
Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
Affected users
Wikipedia readers, WMC contributors, Wikipedia editors that could find useful images
Other details
- Created: 23:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Last updated: 16:54, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Author: Prototyperspective (talk)