2008/12/3 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Artur FijaĆkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
Why 800px? They do not have larger ones? Or they choosen it because it's useless outside internet (being honest it's useless even in Wikipedia for me) and they would have good PR after giving us such crap?
Sorry for strong words, but I'm very against such donations.
800px images are better than nothing.
800px is huge: At the resolutions you might expect a color photograph to be printed in an encyclopedia it's pretty much a full page image. A well downsampled 800px image is nice and probably is generally comparable to the usability of many of our noisy 1600px images. Commons has a little bit of pixel obsession.
If we were talking about 100px images we'd have a different situation. Larger would be better, I agree. But lets have a little perspective.