Last modified: 2006-02-11 08:48:36 UTC
Currently, MediaWiki will produce a thumbnail of an SVG file up to the larger of 1024px or the "natural size" of the SVG. This is sort of a security hole, since SVG files can have arbitrarily large "natural size" without affecting the file size at all. See, for example, [[Image:Map of Colorado counties, blank.svg]]. I propose there should be a maximum thumbnail size for SVG files; say 2000px or so. Wikimedia projects certainly never need images larger than this. Then code like [[Image:Foo.svg]] with no size specification would use the 2000px thumbnail, instead of trying to make a gigantic thumbnail at the "natural size".
This issue has apparently been fixed. Now MediaWiki doesn't scale SVG above 1024px regardless of the "natural size".