On 5/22/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
This has been a problem on Wikinfo. We have set a limit of 200kb for images (Wikipedia has a 2mb limit). Some images simply can't be used but reducing the size and generally using thumbs produces difficulties in formatting which have to be corrected by hand which is quite laborious. A Wikipedia solution would have to be expressed as policy and have general support among editors.
A 200kb image isn't likely to be of a suitable quality for print, so I would recommend not imposing such limits on Wikipedia, where many people do have the goal of producing print versions. If anything, we ought to be encouraging higher resolution images with this aim in mind.
Angela.