Neil Kandalgaonkar, 13/08/2014 11:18:
> I think I need more context. Is this what you're saying?
> 
> - we want to use less storage space
> - images we are generating and caching for not-Wikipedia should be the
> first to go
> - we assume weird sizes are from not-Wikipedia. So let's cache them for
> less time
> - except, that doesn't work, because of tall images
> - so maybe we should change the image request format?

Lovely summary.
Given Filippo's focus on keeping things simple (hurray!), why not
something more straightforward, like: purge everything non-common, the
tall images' thumbs will just need to be regenerated. Needs some
calculation of the drawbacks but better than altering MediaWiki.

I've linked the stats from
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Simplify_thumbnail_cache>.

Nemo

P.s.: On height vs. width, see the long-standing
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24763

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