On 01/23/2013 10:07 PM, Georgiy Tugai wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I think it should probably an option (we could debate the default later). Besides the obvious bandwidth issue, some browsers may do worse scaling then MediaWiki's library (imagemagick I believe). Of course, others might be better. Matt Flaschen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
