On 7/11/14, Jared Zimmerman <jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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_for_the_semi-annual_enlarging_of_thumbnail_images
>
> 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