User blog comment:Ieatrice/New Image Galleries Available in Labs/@comment-961279-20141103060940/@comment-452-20141105121128

Here's how it is supposed to work:


 * If any gallery image contains a |link=, when the page is saved "navigation='true'" is added to the gallery tag.
 * The newfangled gallery script checks for "navigation='true'" in the gallery tag, and doesn't load galleries with the gallery tag.

I say "supposed" to work, because I just attempted to confirm it, but adding "|link=" did nothing.

It should apply to slideshows as well. You can test this yourself by adding "navigation='true'" to a slideshow and using ?gallery=new, or enabling the New Image Galleries in Labs.

I personally don't think that slideshows should be converted into thumbnail galleries at all, and that "type='slideshow'" should also stop the new gallery from loading, because if someone wanted thumbnails, they wouldn't have set it as a slideshow in the first place.