Thread:Project:Support desk/Media Viewer - Reasons for Very Unfavorable Opinion/reply

Hello!

First: Wikimedia isn't malware or something, it's a non-profit organisation hosting many wikis, e.g. Wikipedia :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia

To Media Viewer (maybe i will use the shortcut MMV for MultiMediaViewer :)): There was an announcement, you can navigate from Wikipedia:News (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News) to Tech news and will see that section: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Latest "Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome." linking to the Mailing list wikitech with this message: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000740.html

So, feel free to say your opinion to Multimedia Team: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer

To the point, if MMV is useful: Thats a totally personally decision, i know, so it's ok, and it's super, that you share your opinion about MMV, but Wikipedia is a big project with much users, editors and contributors. So wikitech and Wikipedia administrators, users and all people must try to find a consens what is to do and what not. In case of MMV there was a long time, this feature was in beta tools available for users interested in testing new features. Of this users, the Multimedia team collects tons of opinions, the result you can find here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Survey

So, most people find MMV really helpful, so the decision was to enable it as standard. But this isn't fixed, i think. If the opinions go to the other way, that most of people think, mmv isn't helpful, then it will be disabled or the critic points will be removed :) Please share your opinion on the discussion page i linked to show what you think.

The old image page is still available from MMV, so you can use it :) But the main advantage of MMV, in my personal opinion, is, that i don't need to open the image page for each image i want to show big in any article. So no need anymore to click back to go to article, or click back and the next image to show a gallery in big or something else.