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==== Where to start ====
I figured a new section might make things easier to follow. I am wondering what people think the proper place to start would be. Obviously working off of the list posted, but I am not sure blindly shrinking them in one run is the way to go. Ultimately, I think we will need to find some consensusfor the size of images that fall into several categories (if not a consensus for the smallest size, a consensus for an acceptable size). Starting with just the biggest images might mean they should be resized again. I am thinking it might be best to take a section of the large image list (something fairly simple like album covers or movie posters) and just work on determining a good size for them (just taking the ones off your list for now). Doing it this way, you can ignore edge cases really (as the new size will be below your original mark of 600x600). I think this approach might be easiest to follow in the end. Thoughts? - [[User:AWeenieMan|AWeenieMan]] ([[User talk:AWeenieMan|talk]]) 01:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
*That is a possible approach, and is something the community needs to figure out. With the number of images we are talking about, I don't think resizing twice will be an issue, however this bot still needs to demonstrate its technical merits at some point in the future. Ie, I need approval to do testing on free (test) images to make sure the bot will behave as advertised. Could bag look into approving me to run this bot on '''test''' images only, as many as I need to do until I'm satisfied it works? (I've done plenty of programs for wikipedia before, so I'm not new at this, I know where my bounds are :)). The approval for testing on images is just so that we are clear that the bot is running and that I am debugging it on images that don't have any real value to the encyclopedia.
*As far as the community discussion goes, we really really need to get a handle on this. It won't take long to actually implement any resizings, but the discussion and debate before hand is going to take time. Probably more then the time that the bot will actually operate ;). As this is a touchy situation, I'm going to ask bag to be extremely clear with what the bot is and is not allowed to do. Lets do this on a task by task basis. In this way, we can hopefully avoid misunderstandings like betacommandbot has been having.
*We know that we have to reduce the images, but how much? Ideally (in my view) the images should be no larger then the thumbnail required to display them in the article. We need to figure out what that size is for each class of images. This discussion can possibly happen apart from this BRFA. Perhaps on one of the image policy pages? Get everyone interested involved, but please try not to drag it out, find things we can agree to and lets get moving. What is the average size of a logo? a cd cover? book cover? etc. We want to enforce a maximum threshold unless the uploader gives a reason for a larger image then the max. (perhaps a special tag or field in the fur, that the bot can detect). —— '''[[user:Eagle 101|<font color="navy">Eagle</font><font color="red">101]]'''</font><sup>[[user_talk:Eagle 101|Need help?]]</sup> 01:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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