Since T46727 has been deployed, thumbnails of pictures are now displayed in the Wikidata UI. Example
Currently the behaviour is the following:
Is it possible to make the link direct to Commons instead?
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Jdlrobson | T78430 [Epic] Getting Wikidata to render nicely on mobile web | |||
| Open | None | T158181 Aim for workflow equivalence for MediaWiki on desktop and mobile web | |||
| Open | None | T95878 [Story] Make Wikidata editable on mobile web | |||
| Open | None | T95649 Create and document a stable framework for extending the Wikibase UI | |||
| Stalled | None | T40968 Keyboard-navigability of the repo UI | |||
| Open | None | T54136 [Epic] Redesign Item UI for Wikidata repo | |||
| Resolved | None | T66794 Delinker should delink and replace images on Wikidata too | |||
| Resolved | None | T48358 Wikidata properties linking media should show up in GlobalUsage | |||
| Resolved | hoo | T71456 [Story] Use MediaViewer on commonsMedia properties on Wikibase repo | |||
| Resolved | hoo | T46727 [Story] Statement should show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties | |||
| Resolved | hoo | T192869 Image link should link to Commons and not local file |
For me the image is a link to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglas_adams_portrait_cropped.jpg and the link goes to the local page. No mediaviewer. Linking directly to Commons is something that most Wikipedia's have been doing for years to eliminate the extra local step.
The Wikipedias that do this (for example nlwiki) use JavaScript for this… that is something we could easily do on Wikidata as well… but I'll see whether we can get a nicer/ more general solution in Wikibase.
Change 428663 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hoo man; owner: Hoo man):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] CommonsMediaImageGallery: Link images to commons
Change 428670 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hoo man; owner: Hoo man):
[mediawiki/core@master] TraditionalImageGallery factor getCaptionHtml into own function
Change 428687 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hoo man; owner: Hoo man):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] CommonsMediaImageGallery: Link image captions to commons
Change 428670 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] TraditionalImageGallery factor getCaptionHtml into own function
Change 428663 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] CommonsMediaImageGallery: Link images to commons
Change 428687 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] CommonsMediaImageGallery: Link image captions to commons
Please note that this is not live on Wikidata yet, as the train was skipped yesterday. It might get deployed today, but I don't know.
After it is deployed, relevant pages will need to be purged (or edited).