>
> I mentioned a vague recollection of the Multimedia team wanting to
> pre-render a bunch more image sizes by default
>

Can't be done at the moment because Ops doesn't have the capacity yet. They
have an ongoing hardware order that will let them increase varnish capacity
and let us prerender some sizes in the future.


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Quiddity <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 14-03-27 10:46 PM, Prateek Saxena wrote:
>
>> The design team recently deployed the Popups[1] extension to English
>> Wikipedia as a Beta Feature. We are using the PageImages[2] extension
>> to get a thumbnail with a `pithumbsize` of 300. This was initially
>> 290, but someone on IRC - I forget who - mentioned that it would be
>> faster if it were 300.
>>
>
>
> You and Jorm and I had discussed using 220px
> (which is the MediaWiki default, per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.
> org/show_bug.cgi?id=21117
> and per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/
> Standardized_thumbnails_sizes )
> You mentioned this patch's comment as the reason to use 300px
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109878/22/js/popup.js
> I mentioned a vague recollection of the Multimedia team wanting to
> pre-render a bunch more image sizes by default, in the future, and
> suggested asking them for confirmation/details on that.
>
> Unless/until the vast majority of our images are thumbnailed at 300px, I'd
> recommend using 220px in Hovercards.
>
>
>
>
>> We are facing two problems with this approach -
>>   1. Some images are taking too long to load [3]
>>   2. Sometimes the first relevant image is not picked up [4]
>>
>> Any ideas on how these bugs could be resolved would be helpful. The
>> code for the current implementation can be found on git [5].
>>
>>
>> --prtksxna
>>
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups
>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages
>> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/63156
>> [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/63177
>> [5] http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FPopups.git/
>> abafedb99d571cf9dec30d1695e1044a1a78ca14/resources%2Fext.
>> popups.core.js#L46
>>
>>
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