Bartosz Dziewoński, 12/07/2014 00:57:
Wasn't introducing more thumbnail sizes the problem, rather than changing the default? (Sorry, no time to read through the discussions right now.)
No, it wasn't as clearcut. There are a number of MediaWiki RFCs on how to make thumbnailing more efficient, those definitely need to be addressed first (and it seems something may be moving). http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-July/thread.html https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Thumbnailing
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