When viewing an image in MediaViewer it is difficult to actually get the URL of the image.
The MediaViewer system provides a URL but with a whole bunch of added stuff specific to Media Viewer. All I want is the actual URL but this is not possible within media viewer, I have to go to Commons to get that. Providing the simplest, 'real' URL should be a minimum standard of the 'reuse' functionality I would have thought.
Equally, it doesn't give me the simple filename. It only provides the wikimarkup to embed the image as a thumbnail.
For example,
If I visit the English Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Federation_of_Women_Voters
There is one photo. If I click on that image it gives me the file in Media Viewer.
If I click the 'reuse' icon (the square with the arrow coming out of it) and then the 'share' tab, this is the URL that is provided:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_Federation_of_Women_Voters_3rd_conference.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Australian_Federation_of_Women_Voters_3rd_conference.jpg
But in reality the ACTUAL URL is just the first part https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_Federation_of_Women_Voters_3rd_conference.jpg
All the second part is just additions forced by the MediaViewer.
Equally, if I click the 'embed' tab then it gives me all this code:
[[File:Australian Federation of Women Voters 3rd conference.jpg|thumb|Delegates to the 3rd Triennial Inter-state Conference of the Federation, Melbourne, May 1930]]
This is correct and should remain, but there is no other place to access the filename which is this: File:Australian Federation of Women Voters 3rd conference.jpg
Please - make it easy to access the real URL and the real filename from within mediaviewer.
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