GW2 Wiki English Mirror:MultimediaViewer

MultimediaViewer is provided by the MultimediaViewer extension, and provide a full-size image interface without leaving the page.

This page serves to document any quirks of setting up the MultimediaViewer.

Required extensions

• Extension:MultimediaViewer - This extension comes with MediaWiki 1.31 and above.

Useful notes

Disable MultimediaViewer

• The MultimediaViewer interface isn't shown for images using the link option including the empty link=, which are mostly icons, e.g. {{item icon}} or {{skill icon}}.
• Images within the classes metadata or noviewer don't open the MultimediaViewer interface.

Usages

• Templates using noviewer:
  • Template:ArenaNet image
  • Template:GFDL image‎
  • Template:Plain icon
  • Template:Public domain image
  • Template:Trailer image‎
  • Template:User image
  • Template:Website image‎

Known issues

• SMW query with format = gallery: The overlay parameter cannot be used if extension "MultimediaViewer" (MediaWiki.org) is installed for the wiki due to an incompatibility.
  • Solution: set "overlay = no" (default) as it isn't really required anymore.