File Info/Download Page - Not User-friendly about gcpedia

[fillion07]

Team: Open Source will work on it during the Hackathon. We will try to improve the user experience. We have couple ideas. We still have to evaluate the feasibility.

[pabrams]

What form of link are you using? [[File:filename.ext]] or [[Media:filename.ext]] ? When I use the latter, the file opens instead of bringing me to the file information page. Am I misunderstanding, or should this Issue be closed?

[massierick]

Aha! You are correct! (mostly).

I kept running into the issue with images, I wanted them to open full size when a user clicked them. I was using the [[File]] kink, since [[Media]] doesn't work for images (well, it doesn't display them on the current page). So perhaps this issue is only limited to images. Is there a way to make [[Media]] work with images on the current page? The link seems to work, but it only includes your caption text, not the actual picture. See here for example: http://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/wiki/User:Rick.massie/sandbox

[Phanoix]

I'd suggest trying checking the latest version of mediawiki (stable 1.28), or even the wmf alpha version (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.19) and see if this hasn't been already addressed since the version GCpedia is currently running on (1.26).

[massierick]

I created a short script that sort of does what I was hinting at. This is probably far from the most glamorous solution (I'm a newbie to jquery), but it does work in the current environment. See example here: (http://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/wiki/File:Aandc-yt-eti-plan.doc)

And code below:
`<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-hwg4gsxgFZhOsEEamdOYGBf13FyQuiTwlAQgxVSNgt4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ //Select the url to the document var docLink = $('.dangerousLink').children('a').first().attr('href'); //Get the title of the document var docTitle = $("a.internal").attr("title"); //Create a button with a link to the document $('.fullMedia').prepend("
Download" + " " + docTitle + "

"); //Increase text size in the button to make it more prominent on the page $("#docButton").css("font-size","200%"); }) </script>`

[Phanoix]

This might be resolved by now, will need to check.