This discussion is about how to improve the usability of the website. Looking forward to a print edition the 2mb limit makes sense, but these very large images ought not to make it difficult for the less advantaged to use the website.
Some way needs to be found to not impose them on users whose equipment is unable to handle them.
Fred
From: Angela beesley@gmail.com Reply-To: Angela beesley@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:57:23 +0200 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Article size consistency 32k
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.
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