As the linked thread mentioned, MediaWiki is used on many deployments outside of Wikimedia. For example, I'm running three instances on a server with 10 GB of disk space. Therefore, this should be an option in LocalSettings.php rather than a global change; that way, the installations which are CPU-constrained rather than disk-constrained can use other solutions, from user education to Squid.
On 24/01/13 04:15, Jon Robson wrote:
I felt the last conversation stalled due to a lack of data and lots of speculation.
It would be great if someone in the analytics team could give an idea of the most commonly requested thumbnails and we could use this as the basis for a new conversation.
I'd suggest that once we have such a list we standardise on several sizes and deprecate the others - returning the closest size match for those and leaving it to css/width and height attributes to perform the scaling wanted.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai georgiy.tugai@gmail.com wrote:
However, this is also an avenue for denial of service - someone could create many links to different images with non-standard sizes, intentionally or unintentionally, and therefore overload computational (temporarily) and storage resources on the server.
Note that this has been debated at least a few times in the past. See e.g. the thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/63701/
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