Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ImageResizeBot: Difference between revisions

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**I did not use the BRFA template, because I felt that writing it as prose was better. Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. If someone insists on the template, they may go ahead and add it. I figured there would be loose ends, hence the reason why I've cross posted this to 3 different locations :). As far as the size issues, the idea is to nab those that are way too large. If you can show me one example of an image that is greater then 360,000 pixels in size, that ''should not be reduced'', we can consider upping the threshold. If you would like, I can place a list of all affected images to a subpage of the bot's userspace if this would assist you and others in evaluating the task at hand. —— '''[[user:Eagle 101|<font color="navy">Eagle</font><font color="red">101]]'''</font>^{[[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]]} 19:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

*** I only asked about the BRFA template out of curiosity. I don't really care, myself (as I have read your prose and gathered most of the answers for myself). The template simply makes it easier to grab some of the facts quickly. I would be interested to see a list of affected images, but I am not going to lie to you, I have no intention on going through them all. Out of curiosity, how many are there in total? My only concern is that some editor may have felt the need to have a larger image (even explained why), and they may be upset to find a bot reduced it without discussion. -&nbsp;[[User:AWeenieMan|AWeenieMan]]&nbsp;([[User talk:AWeenieMan|talk]]) 20:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

**** To my other point, I am just not sure thumbnail size is the optimal size to choose. It may be a good default setting, but I think there may be some other heuristics for specific image types (determined by the licensing template) that might be useful. -&nbsp;[[User:AWeenieMan|AWeenieMan]]&nbsp;([[User talk:AWeenieMan|talk]]) 20:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

*** (ec) Musing on the image size issue. I'm uncertain how the Mediawiki software handles image sizing for display on monitors. But I know that available monitor resolutions are growing over time. Will there come a point where monitor resolutions will have grown to a size that a 600x600 image is a standard size thumbnail? If so, we'll want large images again then. I know current top of the line digital monitors display by default in a resolution that is a multiple of the best I can achieve on my home CRT monitor, and it gets a multiple of the monitor resolutions available when I started using computers (an [[Apple II]]). On the other hand, I don't know of a [[Moore's Law]] for monitor resolutions, but our article says it applies to digital camera resolutions. [[User:GRBerry|GRBerry]] 20:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)