On 7/11/14, Jared Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ambassadors, > > Would love to get your feedback and input on a proposed change to default > thumbnail size on wikis, a similar change was made about 2 years ago moving > the default from 180px to 220px, due to the increase in pixel density and > screen sizes, both on mobile devices and desktops/laptops users, especially > on mobile are feeling that images are too small, certainly out of step with > what they are used to other places on the web. > > Based on research from the Analytics group "There are 15580 instances > logged across 393 wikis in log.PrefUpdate_5563398" to the preference that > stores thumbnail default size. On english Wikipedia the current value is > 220px for "default" sized thumbnail images, the size logged in and logged > out users see if they haven't manually changed their preference. Of the > ~15k users who have changes this preference the trend is to set the > preference to a larger size, usually 300px as seen by the graph included in > the bug for this issue eventually I'd love for us to move to responsively > sized images, but perhaps thats a seperate discussion. > > If we could try to wrap things up mid-next week (July 16) so I can work > with Operations to make > > Discussion on Technical Village Pump > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Time_for_the_semi-annual_enlarging_of_thumbnail_images > > Bug > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67703 > > > *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation > > M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0> >
Last time this was brought up (and the time before) it was vetoed. Have you discussed this with ops first? I would hate for wikipedians to get their hopes up just for it to be vetoed again. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
