On 3 April 2015 at 17:15, Bernd Sitzmann <be...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

>   * Reduce size of face detection image
>

This is a big understatement. :-)

Lead images (and all other images) are loaded asynchronously from the
article text, so you can get reading while the app requests the images.
Most people won't really notice this, but those on slower connections
definitely will. Face detection runs on the lead images after it's
downloaded, delaying its display, as we didn't want to readjust the image
shortly after displaying it due to that being quite jarring. By reducing
the size of the image used for face detection, we've also significantly
reduced the amount of time it takes for faces to be detected. In some
cases, the reduction was around an order of magnitude (500ms to 50ms). See the
Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94702#1175501> for
more information.

So, you should all notice lead images appearing a fair bit faster than they
did before! Hooray!

Also, the patch that implemented this
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/185934/> was one of the first by our
newest team member, Michael. Nice work, Michael!

Dan

-- 
Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
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