On 01/23/2013 10:07 PM, Georgiy Tugai wrote:
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.
Yeah, I think it should probably an option (we could debate the default later). Besides the obvious bandwidth issue, some browsers may do worse scaling then MediaWiki's library (imagemagick I believe). Of course, others might be better.
Matt Flaschen