Proposal: Images open their Wikimedia Commons page

Status: Open.

Pull requests: None yet.

What changes

• Clicking an image opens its page on Wikimedia Commons, where readers find the full-size file, its description, author and licence. Today clicking an image does nothing.
• The "Wikimedia Commons" link under each image goes away. The image itself is now the link, so the extra text is redundant. The caption stays, and so do the author and the licence when the file has them.

Why

Readers expect to click an image to see it larger or learn where it comes from; this is how Wikipedia and most sites work. The "Wikimedia Commons" text adds a line of clutter under every image, often on its own when the file needs no author credit.

How it works

• Every image in articles, proposals and blog posts links to its Commons file page, opening in a new tab.
• Credits still appear under the image where the licence asks for them (author and licence, linked to the licence text), so files under Creative Commons licences remain properly attributed.
• The media page on Agpedia (/media/…) keeps its direct link to Commons in its details.

Technical notes

In formatMediaFigureHtml, the <img> is wrapped in an <a> to commonsPageUrl (target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"), and the Commons backlink is dropped from the attribution line. Image files are already served from Agpedia, so nothing changes in how they load.