On 9 April 2014 12:49, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:45 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
Proposal:
- Make the default a nice proper size for the modern Web; I suggest
360px but could be argued up.
- Remove all the other sizes from wgThumbLimits
- Remove the user preferences for thumbnail size
Simple.
Well. Maybe not so simple. We also have to think about the thumbnails included in galleries.Galleries with 360px thumbnails won't be very browsable.
They're just as browsable as galleries with 220px thumbnails were for most of our users 5 years ago. It didn't stop us spewing galleries forth then.
(Actually, with the new style layouts, much more so. There's a distinct discussion worth having about changing the default rendering of galleries to those for better UX.)
Also search results.
I presume you mean Special:NewImages, galleries in Category pags, and the like? Fair, though I think it's reasonable to shoot for consistency.
Also mobile.
Mobile has its own system for re-scaling images already, and I wouldn't propose changing that.
There's plenty of reasons not to remove other sizes.
Do the other uses actually use wgThumbLimits, though, or just an arbitrary size?
J.