Media Viewer

The Media Viewer is a software feature basically copied from the Lightbox used by Flickr. Its development and rollout by WMF has been object to controversies. For more information, see:

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• WP:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-08-13/News and notes

If you want to globally disable Media Viewer you need to create a page called "global.js" and insert the following code: mw.config.set("wgMediaViewerOnClick", false);.¹

You can also disable this feature in your global preferences: select the "Appearance" section and uncheck "Enable Media Viewer".

Community decisions

• en:Wikipedia:Media Viewer/June 2014 RfC
  • w:en:Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Media Viewer RfC
• c:Commons:Requests for comment/Media Viewer software feature
• de:Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Medienbetrachter