On 11 July 2014 18:09, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > Yes, there are two occasions where this has been officially rejected and listed on the limits to configuration changes page because of performance issues, once in 2012 and once in 2013. [1] In other words, these aren't years-old decisions.
Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_configuration_changes
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