Last modified: 2009-12-30 21:22:13 UTC
It would be a good iea to be able to see images in different predefined sizes, like they do on Flickr (see for example http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=286466032&size=m). I see the following advantages : * Users are able to download scaled-down versions of big images, without the need to get the big hi-res file ; the default size (800x600 I think) is not always appropriate * Wiki contributors can rapidly see which size would be most appropriate for a given article, especially for diagrams * AFAIK, the parser is already able to resize images on demand, so this wouldn't need a huge rewriting of the code.
1. Create a page, e.g. User:Foo/Preview 2. Add an image in a few different sizes to it, e.g. [[Image:Foo.png|200px]], [[Image:Foo|400px]] etc. 3. Click Save It's magic!
Thank you Rob :-| but I think this kind of manipulation is not that evident for readers and people who browse the Commons looking for pictures, without knowing much about the wiki-subtilities. Currently, image description pages are not evident at all for newbies, who don't know if they are downloading the hi-res version or what is displayed. I filed this bug after hearing many comments about it from different people.
Note that this bug is linked in some way to bug 2581.
*** Bug 10415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't really see the difference with bug 2581 so I'm going to mark this one as duplicate. If I'm missing something, feel free to reopen and explain. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2581 ***
