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Non-free local images not being displayed in page previews despite being available
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It appears that non-free images (which are stored locally) are not visible in Preview on the desktop site, if you are using Firefox 68.7 ESR on Debian 11.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=962113346#Firefox_can't_display_infobox_images_in_the_preview_of_pages for more information.

Reported by @Editor-1, who uses Debian 11, Firefox 68.7 ESR. The problem is reproducible in both safemode and in a private browsing window.

Replication steps

The issue being complained about is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatetown,_U.S.A. has a non-free image in the infobox:

Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 8.34.45 AM.png (1×1 px, 1 MB)

If I hover over that in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Swayze#Film I see no image in the page preview:
Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 8.34.12 AM.png (658×1 px, 192 KB)

If I go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatetown,_U.S.A.?action=info I see a page image:

Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 8.34.23 AM.png (1×1 px, 1 MB)

and that image is present in https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Skatetown%2C_U.S.A.
but it's not ouputted inn the page preview despite the stance in T147317:

This happens regardless of browser.

Event Timeline

Pretty sure this is not a firefox issue but specific to all images in page previews.

I can check tomorrow but am pretty sure T124225 is the reason these images are not used.

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages#Image_choice

I just did a quick check with Chromium 83.0.4103.61 and Firefox 77.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04, couldn't reproduce.

The issue being complained about is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatetown,_U.S.A. has a non-free image in the infobox:

Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 8.34.45 AM.png (1×1 px, 1 MB)

If I hover over that in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Swayze#Film I see no page preview.
If I go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatetown,_U.S.A.?action=info I see a page image:
Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 8.34.23 AM.png (1×1 px, 1 MB)

and that image is present in https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Skatetown%2C_U.S.A.
but it's not ouputted inn the page preview despite the stance in T147317:

Screen Shot 2020-06-16 at 8.34.12 AM.png (658×1 px, 192 KB)

This happens regardless of browser.

(My guess is that I suspect the issue is actually not a licensing problem but due to the size of the thumbnail since all non-free images are a poor and low resolution)

Jdlrobson renamed this task from Local images not being displayed in preview in Firefox 68 on Debian to Non-free local images not being displayed in page previews.Jun 16 2020, 3:36 PM
Jdlrobson renamed this task from Non-free local images not being displayed in page previews to Non-free local images not being displayed in page previews despite being available.
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This is now fixed.