Hmmm... what about creating a $wgGalleryScaleSmallImages and defaulting
it to false in DefaultSettings.php!?
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (
I applied what was requested on
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13214 having read (as far as
I could) the discussions taken place previously about this feature (and the
vice versa). My general understanding was that the opposite (forcing a scale
up) was somehow turned down previously, although it has been practiced
lately.
I had my own reasonings in support of stopping images less than 120*120 to
scale up. Duesentrieb materialized my idea in few words excellently while we
were chatting over IRC: "scaling up generally doesn't make sense. maybe it
would be nice to be able to force it in some cases, not sure. if that should
be allowed, it might be best to leave it to the client". If you ever use a
slow internet connection and browse one of the galleries of small icons on
Commons, you will notice how page load is extended merely because the images
are being downloaded in a larger (in KB) scaled-up (thus no more nice
looking) sizes.
However, I'm sending this email, not to insist on my reasoning, but to say
that I didn't apply that change because of my own desire, but I did it
because I thought there has been a (shadow) agreement about this.
Certainly, I'm open to comments and suggestions. Maybe we can reach a final
solution which satisfies both sides this time.
Cheers,
Hojjat (aka Huji)
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