Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-31398281-20200712112325

If I visit https://hornblower.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Images and select an image, I get the scrolling gallery. When logged in I get the image name is a link that takes me to the file page, which is useful, when logged out the image name is no longer a link, so I can't find out more about the image. Even if I manually enter the File: URL I can't get to it.

Surely its a key use case for the non-logged in user to be able to inspect an image for its provenance, especially if they are a copyright holder wanting to check how its being used.

If I have an image of an actor playing a role, the file: page is useful because it mentions that the image is used in pages for the character and actor, under the new system casual users are forced to the first page it was ever used in, which may not useful at all.

See https://hornblower.fandom.com/wiki/File:Entenza1951.jpg, which is referenced for the actor, role and a gallery for the series as a whole. Casual users get the last, and least useful, option, and cannot get to the other 2 options

I think this is a poorly thought out and implemented decision. Fandom pages should be displayed the same for members of the community and those outside it, bar edit controls, otherwise it becomes a balkanised system.