Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:32:57 UTC
Right now, Wikipedia is full of images sized to |250px or |300px because the images look incomprehensibly small at high resolutions. The text scales up; why shouldn't the images? Allow a user-specified thumbnail size, within some sort of sane range. Those running on 640x480 desktops will have their 150px thumbnails, and those running on mammoth 1280x960 desktops can use 300px thumbnails along with an increased font size so that presentation is, in general, preserved. Alternately, allow a thumbnail size specifier that's not in pixels; rather, it should be as a percentage of the screen's width. How this could be reconciled with having to rescale the images on the server end remains a mystery to me.
Having configurable sizes for thumbnails would be nice, the default could be 150px still and one could choose from {150,200,250,300,350} or something like that. However having the font scale up as well would be bad.
No, no, I meant that the *user* would probably scale up the font a bit so that the text would still be legible. (I run high-resolution, and I know I do.) I agree, having MediaWiki do it *for* the user would be a bad idea.
This should also go for the "gallery" tag. On high-resolution monitors, the galleries look like postage stamps. Number of images per row should also be configurable, to make the interface as flexible as possible.
Fixed in HEAD, please file a seperate bug for the gallery size as that's a seperate issue (speaking from a developer viewpoint:=)
This would damage cachability of output. Recommend closing WONTFIX.
For reference this is not the only thing that changes the parser cache, the other ones are: * math * stubthreshold * editsection * date * numberheadings * language * thumbsize * any extra options specified by the language file (such as the transliteration on zh.)
I think this is a very good idea, However note that if an image is 300px wide and someone sets their default to be 400px, then the |thumbnail| should be replaced with |frame| thus rendering it 300px wide, otherwise you'll get nasty pixellation. I think this indicates another bug which is that currently images smaller the |thumb| size (180px is it?) get expanded up to that size, which often isn't nice. We can get around that by manually editing now, but if/when this is implemented, then it'll need a more rigorous work- around.
In addition, I would expect that we could have others, for example a |width| tag for landscape images across the width of the screen, and even possibly a |half| tag for half the width of the screen, &c.
I don't know how or who did it, but I now think that this has been fixed.
*** Bug 6495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
