As the linked thread mentioned, MediaWiki is used on many deployments outside of Wikimedia. For example, I'm running three instances on a server with 10 GB of disk space. Therefore, this should be an option in LocalSettings.php rather than a global change; that way, the installations which are CPU-constrained rather than disk-constrained can use other solutions, from user education to Squid.
On 24/01/13 04:15, Jon Robson wrote: > I felt the last conversation stalled due to a lack of data and lots of > speculation. > > It would be great if someone in the analytics team could give an idea > of the most commonly requested thumbnails and we could use this as the > basis for a new conversation. > > I'd suggest that once we have such a list we standardise on several > sizes and deprecate the others - returning the closest size match for > those and leaving it to css/width and height attributes to perform the > scaling wanted. > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Petr Kadlec <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> However, this is also an avenue for denial of service - someone could >>> create many links to different images with non-standard sizes, >>> intentionally or unintentionally, and therefore overload computational >>> (temporarily) and storage resources on the server. >>> >> Note that this has been debated at least a few times in the past. See e.g. >> the thread at >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/63701/ >> >> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >
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