https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63903

--- Comment #7 from C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> ---
@Tsui: explicit sizes are probably actually the right thing in most cases. 
There is some discussion in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Infobox_Image
and it seems to me that the infoboxes with issues were ones that assumed a
fixed width even though they didn't specify an explicit width bound, which was
hostile to user customization.

Remember: if you don't specify an explicit size, you are requesting that MW
choose an "appropriate size", which could be anything -- and will likely vary
on mobile, hi-density devices, user preference, etc.  If that's not actually
what you wanted, then yes you should be specifying size explicitly.

That said, I am interested in continuing discussion on image options in
general.  There have been various RfCs proposing a more semantic set of image
options, which would allow resizing in a more meaningful way than the current
inflexible "default thumb size".  Contact me on my talk page if you are
interested in pursuing that discussion; offhand I can't remember if there is
already a bugzilla and/or RfC for that work.

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