I think this is a feature request, not a bug, so I'd like to take it through the regular Web-Team-Backlog process, which will require input from Design.

I'd also like to clarify the following points:

• I don't believe that this is a regression (as I've said above)
• the link is a direct link to the media file, the format of which Safari doesn't support, not to another part of the mobile site, so I'm fairly certain that the dialog is being shown by Safari
• the same image (video still) and its summary text are displayed on the desktop and mobile versions of the site

That said, I don't disagree that we could better support in-page video playback on mobile where possible.

yeah, this is more a direct consequence of the terrible A/V media support we still have.

This is an issue with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler
The link you are seeing is actually styled like so on desktop:

In T98491#1276459, @Jdlrobson wrote:

This is an issue with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler
The link you are seeing is actually styled like so on desktop:

and the JavaScript that gets loaded when you click it is not being loaded.
Disable JS on desktop and you'll get the same behaviour.

I get a similar behaviour, but not the same, a little better.

— When I click the image, nothing happens. Only at the second or third click, I get the ugly new tab.
— There is the little link with the two rectangles. It gives me the normal page for the media, which is nice.

In the mobile version of the page, I don't have this little link. This is too bad for accessibility.

@phuedx,

Thank you for taking interest in the issue.

In T98491#1272111, @phuedx wrote:

I don't believe that this is a regression (as I've said above)

Before, clicking gave the normal version of the page, which has the 4 points I listed.

Now, clicking gives the (new) mobile version of the page, which fails terribly.

This is what I call a regression.