Some additional discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes/Ops_discussion
Including:
I’m starting to think it would be good for us to organise a sprint on this
very topic, get the multimedia team, relevant Ops people and some other
Another means to accomplish the same goal (more standardized thumbnail
sizes) are the semantics markup for images proposals mooted about
(but not yet formalized, I don't think). The idea would be to
strongly encourage authors to use more-semantic markup, and give more
authority to the renderer
I would be in favor of waiting to see if the ongoing work described by
Gergo is sufficient to address Ops' issues before doing something with the
thumbnail size standardization RfC. It came to be due to operational costs,
but if thumbnail rendering becomes a lot faster (thanks to bucketing, for
I asked some folks about
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes
.
Antoine, the original author, said on the talk page:
We had several mailing list discussion in 2012 / beginning of 2013
regarding optimizing the thumbnails rendering. That RFC is
