#6977 NORM Never A: Image curation needed

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#6977: Image curation needed
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  Reporter:  cjb         |       Owner:  cjb           
      Type:  defect      |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  wikiserver  |     Version:                
Resolution:              |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0           |    Blocking:                
 Blockedby:              |  
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Changes (by bemasc):

 * cc: bemasc (added)


Comment:

 Alternatively, if we imagine that all images are equally valuable, then we
 should list all images appearing in the slice, ordered by filesize, and
 then include the first 20 MB.  Given the difference in compressibility
 between SVG and PNG, it might also be appropriate to include an
 approximate size correction factor for SVG when determining that ordering.

 A problem here is that by default, MediaWiki preprocesses SVGs into PNG
 thumbnails for display in pages.  We would probably prefer if the
 rendering of SVGs were left entirely to the browser, with size controlled
 by the image size tags.  See
 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3593 .  This has not yet
 been implemented.

 Implementation of SVG-based thumbnails has to occur in the wikitext
 renderer. That means either in InstaView or MediaWiki.  I do not know the
 status of SVG in InstaView.  In MediaWiki, the shortest path to
 implementation may be to replace MediaWiki's thumb.php
 (http://svn.wikimedia.org/doc/thumb_8php-source.html) with a dummy
 thumbnailer that simply returns the input SVG.  My PHP is not good enough
 to make this happen.

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