Building up on this information:
I have once tried to switch from "regular thumb handling" to "404 thumb
handling" on an existing wiki and found that this does not work since as
a result no thumbs were rendered at all. Starting with "404 thumb
handling" on a fresh wiki however works fine. I have not dug into this
more but may it be that all existing thumbs have to be deleted to clear
the way for the new handling mode when switching the mode on wiki
already in use?
Cheers Karsten
Am 31.07.2017 um 15:52 schrieb Brian Wolff:
Thumbnails will generally not be deleted except
if an image is deleted,
overwritten with another file or purged (ie appending ?action=purge to the
file description page)
--
bawolff
On Monday, July 31, 2017, Krabina Bernhard <krabina(a)kdz.or.at> wrote:
Dear all,
thank you for your help, it is much appreciated.
An additional question regarding thumbnailing: do thumbs ever get deleted
by
MediaWiki?
They probably get deleted once the image gets
deleted. But other than
that, do all generated thumbnails exist as long as the
image exists?
cheers,
Bernhard
----- Am 29. Jul 2017 um 2:22 schrieb Brian Wolff bawolff(a)gmail.com:
> Hi,
>
> MediaWiki will by default only create image thumbs for needed sizes at
> time the size is used on a page. So for example when you add an image
> to a page, MW will create the thumbnail sizes needed to display an
> article. However, if the image is uploaded but never added to a normal
> page, then thumbnails for the image won't be generated (except for
> those needed on image description page, which are different sizes)
>
> There is a second mode mediawiki can operate in, where images are
> rendered on demand when someone views the image (so-called "404 thumb
> handling"). Wikimedia wikis use this mode. In this mode, thumbs are
> created on first view. Additionally in this mode, $wgImageLimits
> creates additional links on the image description page. This mode is
> generally more efficient (especially on page saves), and also more
> reliable in the event that there is a missing thumb.
>
> For information to set up 404-thumb rendering see
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Thumb.php
>
> --
> Brian
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Krabina Bernhard <krabina(a)kdz.or.at>
wrote:
>> Dear MediaWiki experts,
>>
>> I cannot really figure out the behaviour of MediaWiki regarding
thumbnailing.
>> What I want to achieve is that my
MediaWiki installation produces
thumbnails in
>> a specified size.
>>
>> What I did after reading through several help pages is this:
>> ---------------------------
>> # Images und Thumbnails
>> $wgThumbLimits = array( 80, 250, 390 );
>> $wgDefaultUserOptions['thumbsize'] = 1; // thumb size 250
>>
>> $wgImageLimits = array( array( 80, 90 ), array( 800, 600 ), array(
1280,
1024 )
>> );
>> $wgDefaultUserOptions['imagesize'] = 2; // image size 800, 600
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> In my opinion this should guarantee that for every image uploaded,
there
is an
>> 80, 250 and 390px sized thumbnail. In
many cases this is true, but
there are
>> some cases were I can find a 100px
thumbnail, but no 80px thumbnail.
>>
>> If I understand it correctly, this can perfectly be the case if any
user
sets
>> his/her preference to 100px. I don't
mind so much extra sizes to be
produced,
>> but I want to make sure that a 80px
thumbnail is there.
>>
>> Maybe in the cases where it is not present the images were uploaded
before
the
>> above mentioned setting was made? But how
can I get the wiki to redo
thumbnails
> in my
desired size?
>
> cheers,
> Bernhard
>
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