Hi all.

I apologize for cross-posting; I'm trying to reach all projects here, and 
encourage you to translate and spread this message to relevant village pumps.

It came to my mind that the Media Viewer goes full-screen, which doesn't meet 
the "I stay on the article" expectation. I feel it may be important to an 
average reader to gain orientation.

I opened a discussion, with some people calling my idea a "metadata pop-up" 
rather than a "media viewer". I feel that may be good thing: the existing 
default opens a lot of image info and tells people what Commons is. I feel the 
media viewer should do something close to the same, with the advantage of not 
leaving the page, and some interactive means of viewing the image if the user 
clicks some buttons.

As opposed to that, a "Media Viewer" would show a bigger image and make use of 
space. But the mock I have is slightly bigger already, like the existing 
"File:*" page. I am not assuming that the reader wants a bigger image; I'm 
assuming he may also be interested (and it would be more transparent to) in 
reading some metadata, description, date, author.

Please see the discussion here and weigh in, basing on your preferences and 
Wikimedia projects experience.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Please_do_not_go_full_screen

Regards,
Gryllida.

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