Last modified: 2012-09-06 18:31:16 UTC
Give some sort of error when an animated gif exceeds the $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea Currently, only the first frame is shown, which is fine, but the user should also be made aware that there is an error. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMaxAnimatedGifArea
What sort of error did you have in mind? (When you upload the image, on the image description page [probably the best bet], when you are previewing a page that is going to include said image, directly where the image is included, something else?) Most practical I would imagine would be on the image description page, right where the "Obesity_state_level_estimates_1985-2010.gif (612 × 451 pixels, file size: 567 KB, MIME type: image/gif, looped, 26 frames, 26s)" line is.
Commons has a manually populated category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Animated_gifs_exceeding_the_12.5MP_limit An automatically populated category would be nice. The default name might be Category:Animated gifs exceeding the scaling limit
See also related bug 23063 Gerrit change #20662 introduces a warning on image description pages if we can't animate thumbnail (That includes APNG and animated SVG's as well). > > An automatically populated category would be nice. > The default name might be > Category:Animated gifs exceeding the scaling limit How much is this wanted. The parser is kind of separate from displaying the image, so I'm not sure what a clean way of adding the category would be.
> > An automatically populated category would be nice. > > How much is this wanted. It doesn't seem important if the image description page displays a warning.
I would support an image description warning like what Bawolff suggested.
(In reply to comment #3) > Gerrit change #20662 introduces a warning on image description pages if we can't > animate thumbnail (That includes APNG and animated SVG's as well). > This is now merged.
