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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai
<georgiy.tugai(a)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/
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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