Proposal:

   - Make the default a nice proper size for the modern Web; I suggest
   360px but could be argued up.
   - Remove all the other sizes from wgThumbLimits
   - Remove the user preferences for thumbnail size

Simple.

J.


On 9 April 2014 12:33, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote:

> Let's talk about something that's not text-related for a change.
>
> This has already been brought up on several venues recently; Antoine
> suggested I bring it up here [1], so I'm doing that.
>
> It's pretty clear that various wiki communities would like to see larger
> thumbnails [2], either by default or as an option. The largest we offer is
> 300px, the default is 220px, and that's like a speck of dust on the
> displays common these days.
>
> It is apparently not possible to provide a different set of sizes
> per-wiki, not to support more sizes than we support now [3]. Now the
> question is, can we enlarge them for all Wikimedia wikis at once instead?
> What if we lower the available number of sizes (we have 7 different ones
> now)? I haven't seen that answered anywhere, and I and others would love to
> know.
>
> (The latest request that sparked this e-mail is <
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63440>.)
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63440#c5
> [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=
> RESOLVED%20%3Arequests%20summary%3Athumb
> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41712#c14
>
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