Extension:MultimediaViewer

The MultimediaViewer extension gives the user of a wiki a slightly nicer interface for viewing full-size, or nearly full-size, images in their browser without extraneous page loads or confusing interstitial pages. For more info about this tool, check the Media Viewer project page.

Installation
Option A: use Vagrant. See the MediaWiki-Vagrant page for instructions to get a MediaWiki installation going with a Vagrant virtual machine system.

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Option B: install manually.

First, consider installing Extension:BetaFeatures. It may be helpful to hide the media viewer feature behind a preference. If you don't install this, it will be enabled everywhere. MultimediaViewer uses the GetBetaFeaturePreferences hook, which is created and run from BetaFeatures, to register this preference.

Setting up context for metadata
You might want to create a structure similar to what User:MarkTraceur has on his wiki, which is a barebones version of the Commons Information template system. You'll also likely want to download Extension:CommonsMetadata - it's not a hard requirement, but without it you won't get very much information in your lightboxes.

You should probably also add to the image in order to test some of the licensing functionality.

Using the extension
First thing, before testing, is to make sure you're logged in and you have the preference enabled: Log in to the wiki and go to Special:Preferences, then visit the "Beta features" tab and check the appropriate box.

Next, go to a page that has a thumbnail on it. Try clicking on the image or on the "expand" icon near it. The lightbox should pop up and give you a bigger view of the image.

If you'd prefer, there's an exported test environment that you can use via Special:Import to quickly set up a suitable testing environment.