https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34041

--- Comment #8 from Antoine "hashar" Musso <[email protected]> 2012-04-23 21:56:54 
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The size limit was introduced in 2004 by Jens Frank with commit 7be49919836a38

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=commit;h=7be49919836a3871102cc1375733c35e82e11b19

I am pretty sure 10k x 10k was, as Lejonel said, meant to display images in
full resolution.  At that time it was rare to have image bigger than 4k by 4k,
most people probably had 1024x768 screens.

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