This discussion is about how to improve the usability of the website.
Looking forward to a print edition the 2mb limit makes sense, but these very
large images ought not to make it difficult for the less advantaged to use
the website.
Some way needs to be found to not impose them on users whose equipment is
unable to handle them.
Fred
From: Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com>om>, English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:57:23 +0200
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Article size consistency 32k
On 5/22/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
This has been a problem on Wikinfo. We have set a
limit of 200kb for images
(Wikipedia has a 2mb limit). Some images simply can't be used but reducing
the size and generally using thumbs produces difficulties in formatting
which have to be corrected by hand which is quite laborious. A Wikipedia
solution would have to be expressed as policy and have general support among
editors.
A 200kb image isn't likely to be of a suitable quality for print, so I
would recommend not imposing such limits on Wikipedia, where many
people do have the goal of producing print versions. If anything, we
ought to be encouraging higher resolution images with this aim in
mind.
Angela.
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