On 14-03-27 10:46 PM, Prateek Saxena wrote:
The design team recently deployed the Popups[1]
extension to English
Wikipedia as a Beta Feature. We are using the PageImages[2] extension
to get a thumbnail with a `pithumbsize` of 300. This was initially
290, but someone on IRC - I forget who - mentioned that it would be
faster if it were 300.
You and Jorm and I had discussed using 220px
(which is the MediaWiki default, per
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21117
and per
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardized_thumbnails…
)
You mentioned this patch's comment as the reason to use 300px
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109878/22/js/popup.js
I mentioned a vague recollection of the Multimedia team wanting to
pre-render a bunch more image sizes by default, in the future, and
suggested asking them for confirmation/details on that.
Unless/until the vast majority of our images are thumbnailed at 300px,
I'd recommend using 220px in Hovercards.
We are facing two problems with this approach -
1. Some images are taking too long to load [3]
2. Sometimes the first relevant image is not picked up [4]
Any ideas on how these bugs could be resolved would be helpful. The
code for the current implementation can be found on git [5].
--prtksxna
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages
[3]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/63156
[4]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/63177
[5]
http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FPopups.git/abafedb99…