On Saturday 20 July 2002 01:19 am, you wrote:
I'm not a big fan of thumbnails, personally, unless they're on a page with a lot of images--which most of our pages won't be. I prefer to have an image 300-400 pixel across its widest dimension in the article, which IMO can usually be small enough to load quickly, give a sense of detail, and not distract too much from the article itself.
kq
Just remember that a very large chunk of people visiting wikipedia have browser windows of about 750 pixels wide (or less). This doesn't leave much room for the sidebar, image and text when the displayed image is 400 pixels wide. Although this isn't an issue for images that stand alone in the text, it is an issue when an image has text flowing around it. When that is the case, I aim to have the image no more than 250 pixels wide (otherwise half the image dominates the text flowing around it for those with 800 x 600 screen resolutions). Just something to consider when sizing images.
--maveric149
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