User blog comment:Kirkburn/How images are picked to represent articles/@comment-22460-20130626185703/@comment-126761-20130627140204

I'll pass the My Wikia issue along - unfortunately I do not have an iPad to test it on personally. Thanks for the report.

We are looking at some ideas around choosing the 'primary' image for an article - it's not a crazy idea :)

ImageServing should not skip templates - infoboxes are certainly a primary source for great images. I believe it essentially looks at the intermediate step between the wikitext and the rendered page, so after all the template code has been parsed.