Last modified: 2014-08-26 07:21:55 UTC
The 220px thumbnails are too small considering the great amount of high resolution displays [1] and the growing number of dpi on mobile devices. I think it is mandatory to change this in the next two years or so. Otherwise the user experience will drop significantly. Currently there are discussions about the technical problems on how to implement this: * Bug 41712 comment 14 states some caching problems when setting the standard thumbnail width for each wiki separately and (possibly) different. Therefore I'd suggest to change the default globally. * Another proposal [2] suggests to "store only preferred-size thumbnails indefinitely" ... In the past a few site requests had community consensus but were closed as "WONTFIX" due to server performance issues. (See bug 47332 for example) Though community consensus is needed for a possible patch of this bug to be merged the technical details should be discussed first. [1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_resolution_higher.asp [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes#Caching_strategy_23835
I guess it's related to [1] in some way? == References == * [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails_sizes>
This should be handled through the RFC process, not via a bug request :-) During the Amsterdam hackaton, we have agreed to review the list of pending RFC to cleanup / assign priorities to them. Hopefully the Standardized Thumbnails Size will receive some focus and have some team "in charge".
(In reply to comment #1) > I guess it's related to [1] in some way? > > == References == > * [1] > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ > Standardized_thumbnails_sizes> Related but not identical. The bug request is about the site request "increasing the default thumbnail size" rather than a solution to the caching problems, CPU usage, etc. Though it seems the caching issues etc. have to be solved first.
*** Bug 67709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marco, this request is old and was overlooked, it seems, when this newer request was filed here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67703 "Change default thumbnail size to 300px based on user behavior" Would a change to 300px be sufficient for closing this bug as well?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Time_for_the_semi-annual_enlarging_of_thumbnail_images
Shouldn't this apply to all MediaWiki installations if implemented, meaning not only to Wikimedia projects?
I think that is the ultimate plan, yes
(In reply to Vogone from comment #7) > Shouldn't this apply to all MediaWiki installations if implemented, meaning > not only to Wikimedia projects? Bug 67703 is the bug for making the change to the default settings of MediaWiki itself, as opposed to the WMF cluster of wikis.
JamesF logged that bug and it got closed as a duplicate of this one. But yes the goal is that it affect wikimedia wikis and or the default on mediaeiki as well
(In reply to Jared Zimmerman (WMF) from comment #10) > JamesF logged that bug and it got closed as a duplicate of this one. Whoops. I'll reopen.
Why is bug 67709 not a duplicate? There are two separate issues here: * this bug (and bug 67709) - increase thumb size on WMF cluster * bug 67703 - increase thumb size for MediaWiki
Let's make this a tracking bug for increasing size and bug 67709 a request for particular size (300px). That's going to be less messy than duping them.
