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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