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Investigate method of displaying media file types (other than images)
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Description

As brought up in this comment, let's investigate if there is a better way to display an image / icon for something like an audio file (other than an image), as seen in this ogg sample query page.

Issue:

I tried the searching ogg files example, and some results are shown in a "multimedia card". Since all results are audio files all look the same (a speaker icon), I have to hover to get some more details based on the file name and make several clicks to actually listen to it.

Maybe we should consider a more informative way of preview results when they are audio files. This may involve including part of the name of the file, showing a relevant related image in addition to the speaker, playing the audio on clic/hover, or something else.

Example of what it currently looks like in this A/B test:

ogg_files.png (308×362 px, 35 KB)

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We might have solved this by @Jdrewniak in his latest wiktionary widget (image below) - but I'd like to confirm that the results shown in the Multimedia section are more relevant and sized appropriately.

wiktionary widget - audio file.png (27×151 px, 4 KB)

I'm declining this ticket - we won't be showing multimedia results in the sister project snippets on enwiki.