Hello Ambassadors,
Would love to get your feedback and input on a proposed change to default
thumbnail size on wikis, a similar change was made about 2 years ago moving
the default from 180px to 220px, due to the increase in pixel density and
screen sizes, both on mobile devices and desktops/laptops users, especially
on mobile are feeling that images are too small, certainly out of step with
what they are used to other places on the web.
Based on research from the Analytics group "There are 15580 instances
logged across 393 wikis in log.PrefUpdate_5563398" to the preference that
stores thumbnail default size. On english Wikipedia the current value is
220px for "default" sized thumbnail images, the size logged in and logged
out users see if they haven't manually changed their preference. Of the
~15k users who have changes this preference the trend is to set the
preference to a larger size, usually 300px as seen by the graph included in
the bug for this issue eventually I'd love for us to move to responsively
sized images, but perhaps thats a seperate discussion.
If we could try to wrap things up mid-next week (July 16) so I can work
with Operations to make
Discussion on Technical Village Pump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Time_f…
Bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67703
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0>
Last time this was brought up (and the time before) it was vetoed.
Have you discussed this with ops first? I would hate for wikipedians
to get their hopes up just for it to be vetoed again.
--bawolff