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There are a number of questions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:PageImages and tasks in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/pageimages/ that could potentially be answered once we have clearer documentation, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages , about how exactly the extension works (including all configuration options, with examples) , and how exactly it is currently configured on Wikimedia sites (and if there are variations regarding the extensions that use it, giving details about them),

E.g.

  • How does it select images?
    • (details about dimensions?
    • does it avoid any types of templates?
    • does it now avoid non-fairuse images per T124225? If so, how?)
  • How can the selection be overridden, if at all?
  • How can mistaken selections, where there is no replacement image, be purged/reset? (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agnes_Boulton&action=info is currently showing her husband's picture)

Please add all details to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages not here! :-)