User blog comment:Ieatrice/New Image Galleries Available in Labs/@comment-6532857-20141212044915/@comment-452-20150113181305

There is, when you click on them, a lightbox pops up with the image in it.

Well, I say "with the image in it", but it actually pops up with no content at all, then after a few seconds the image details and image are loaded.

I told Wikia years ago that it would make more sense to display the link to the file page immediately, but they apparently don't care about site speed.