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