On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 05:04:35PM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
A couple of image-related questions...
- Magnus mentioned that he has added code to CVS that lets you do
[[Image:blah.jpg|thumb=blah_manually_thumbnailed.jpg]]
Has that gone live on the Wikipedia?
No.
- How best should the
Wikipedia deal with convenient viewing of multi-megapixel images like the image on the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_Victoria
Seeing we want the ability to make printed material out of Wikipedia content, uploading full-resolution images is IMO the way to do it. However, such images currently break the image description page.
Should the image description page automatically resize images larger than screen width and have a link to download the full image? Would such a feature be enough to deal with the problem? Would the automatic resizing from "really big" to "screen size" cause the same kind of image quality issues that Tannin mentioned with thumbnailing?
Similar, but due to the bigger size of the "screen size" images, this would be as obvious than for the very small thumbs.
How big is "screen size"? 600px width? 800px?
Regards,
JeLuF