fortunately, i made a discovery: the “detail” page is called “detail.php”, while the normal “get me the whole image” link is “fetch.php”. so i simply deleted detail.php and symlinked the name to fetch.php; this fixed it, and i didn't even have to edit any code, because doku is built the way it should be: a loose collection of files that anyone can understand.

this is, again, why i went with dokuwiki - because it's one of the last vestiges of classic nerd software on the internet. it's like linux in 2003, before it started trying to Help you, before it started trying to be a mishmash of half-baked, half-remembered ideas from Windows and MacOS that don't make end users all that much more comfortable, while getting in the way of the people who the OS was meant to be for in the first place. just let me ifconfig an IP onto eth0 you jackoffs, stop Managing my Network.

i hate modern linux. it has been going in the wrong direction for over 20 years, trying desperately to suck up to consumers who will never care about it, like the democrats “reaching across the aisle” to people who simply bite their fingers off for their trouble, while doing immense harm to their own constituents in the process. and that's really a microcosm of all free software, it's why every other open source CMS package reeks of business-brain.

enterprise brainworms have taken over so fully that you just can't find something at the triple point of “good idea”, “well maintained” and “actually useful for normal human beings,” which is, again, how i wound up using a piece of software from 2004, before the collapse began in earnest. it's like finding steel that isn't radioactive due to fallout from nuclear tests: you simply have to go dig up the old stuff, even if that means melting down old car chassis.