[Wikipedia-l] Re: Thumbnails

Thu Jul 1 09:46:04 UTC 2004

Magnus Manske wrote:

> Here's the "main proposal":
> 
>    [[image:bla.jpg|thumb|some text]] generates a normal thumbnail
>    [[image:bla.jpg|thumb=bla_small.jpg|some text]] uses "bla_small.jpg" 
> as the thumbnail
> 
> This associates the manually created thumbnail with the larger image in 
> a machine-readable fashion. It should only be used if the manual 
> thumbnail is of significant better quality than the automatic one, or if 
> the manual thumbnail shows an alternate view (e.g., only a part) of the 
> larger image.

I'm neither voicing opposition nor support here, but I would like to 
point out that this is kind of asking for trouble: More and more people 
are inevitably going to claim that their manual thumbnails have 
"significantly better quality"...

Timwi