On 25/01/13 08:12, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 01/24/2013 04:28 AM, Georgiy Tugai wrote:
Also, a lightbox feature may help - expand the image to the full size
(as sent by the server) on click, then link to the file page upon a
second click (hide the lightbox upon a click outside of the image
On 24/01/13 13:54, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 01/23/2013 10:07 PM, Georgiy Tugai wrote:
As the linked thread mentioned, MediaWiki is used on many deployments
outside of Wikimedia.
For example, I'm running three instances on a server with 10 GB of disk
space.
Therefore, this should be an
On 01/24/2013 04:28 AM, Georgiy Tugai wrote:
Also, a lightbox feature may help - expand the image to the full size
(as sent by the server) on click, then link to the file page upon a
second click (hide the lightbox upon a click outside of the image
borders).
I am unsure how difficult this
Whenever a file is linked to with a size specification, e.g.
[[File:test.png|thumb|123px]], a new thumbnail is generated in that
particular size, and saved to the disk.
This is generally a good thing, because it minimises the amount of data
the clients need to download without losing quality at
On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai georgiy.tu...@gmail.com wrote:
However, this is also an avenue for denial of service - someone could
create many links to different images with non-standard sizes,
intentionally or unintentionally, and therefore overload computational
(temporarily) and
I felt the last conversation stalled due to a lack of data and lots of
speculation.
It would be great if someone in the analytics team could give an idea
of the most commonly requested thumbnails and we could use this as the
basis for a new conversation.
I'd suggest that once we have such a list
I'd strongly suggest considering this kind of approach.
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:53:39PM -0800, Aaron Schulz wrote:
I'd strongly suggest considering this kind of approach.
Ditto. Among other benefits already mentioned, having a predetermined
set of sizes would help greatly in the architecture and capacity
planning of media storage, as well as in
As the linked thread mentioned, MediaWiki is used on many deployments
outside of Wikimedia.
For example, I'm running three instances on a server with 10 GB of disk
space.
Therefore, this should be an option in LocalSettings.php rather than a
global change; that way, the installations which are
On 01/23/2013 10:07 PM, Georgiy Tugai wrote:
As the linked thread mentioned, MediaWiki is used on many deployments
outside of Wikimedia.
For example, I'm running three instances on a server with 10 GB of disk
space.
Therefore, this should be an option in LocalSettings.php rather than a
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