2010/4/14 Madam Chomsky madamchomsky@yahoo.de:

Hi Hope I  am posting to the correct list.

I am doing an opensearch query via the api (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te). Some search results come with a tiny thumbnail image link. I would like to know if the thumbnails are defined when someone is creating a wikipedia page or if there is some kind of algorithm that automatically creates these thumbnails. Would be glad about any information about this matter.

The opensearch result itself just contains page titles, no images. I'm guessing whatever's showing you these images is using some heuristic like finding the first image on the page and showing you that.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)