Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150929231108/@comment-24473195-20160204191610

Insights leverages a core infrastructure of special report pages built by MediaWiki developers. So it will obviously have some of the same shortcomings that that infrastructure has. Issues with images inside templates are caused by MediaWiki core partly because the image is not really in the page, it is in the template namespace and it only "appears" as if it is there.

The insights tool mainly serves to give an insight into possible actions that users can take, and to  show how the wikia is doing in terms of maintenance tasks. For example, popular pages are only affected by readers, and editors are limited in what they can do to make them more popular. For infoboxes, the tool is merely showing pages that may need them.

While some of these insights may be improved, in some cases it may require considerable infrastructure changes which may break someone's favorite report. Ultimately if people want "perfect" reports then the only conceivable way of getting them is writing scripts  on their own to get them because much like everything perfection is relative.