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Cropping or stretching thumbnails

Would you mind providing a second opinion for phab:T282385? AntiCompositeNumber declined it as not being a bug but a feature. I see no reason not to stretch thumbnails, stretching a few percent is imperceptible to humans but cropping is disrupting in some cases. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: I suspect this is something fundamental in the graphics back-end that is used, not a MediaWiki-specific issue. Adding a bit of whitespace probably is the best solution in the example case. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:31, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Afaik no. I ran ImageMagick locally and doesn't crop by default. Thumbnails get cropped because (to quote AntiCompositeNumber) "cropping usually produces the best result". Here's a demonstration of the difference which shows pretty clearly that a few percent stretch is imperceptible, but a few percent crop can be quite bad if an image has no padding. Assuming it isn't fundamental back-end beyond our control, would you support stretching instead of cropping for thumbnails? Because the example case is just an example case, thousands of logos on Wikimedia have zero padding. They may look fine to you and to me, but a mobile user or someone with different thumbnail size preference may get served a cropped logo. If we must accept the cropping, we should pretty much get a bot to add padding to a gazillion images to ensure nothing essential ever gets cropped. Adjusting the thumbnailer code/configuration is a more sane solution. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:31, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: To be honest, I don't feel strongly either way. I think you would get a better response on phabricator if you suggested a specific change. Looking a bit more, AntiCompositeNumber provided a link to the ImageMagick config in MediaWiki, perhaps there's one or two settings there you could suggest are changed, or extra settings added? You may also want to wait for the next version of the wishlist survey and propose it there. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:41, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
AntiCompositeNumber already said it: there's no way to fit a 235x20 image in a 220x19 box without stretching, cropping, or changing the size of the box, and cropping usually produces the best result. So stretching is an option, but we're stuck with cropping because.. Who knows? I don't know Python, all I know is that -resize 220x works for imagemagick. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:49, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

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Wikidata_list

Mike, I am looking for example templates to be used with {{Wikidata_list}} using "row_template" parameter. I run into this post suggesting that you were experimenting with such templates. Do you have any working examples? Thanks --Jarekt (talk) 16:07, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

@Jarekt: Probably better on Commons, see commons:Template:Wikidata Gallery. Or User:Mike Peel/Cosmic microwave background experiments was sort of working here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Perfect User:Mike Peel/Cosmic microwave background experiment row was kind of example I was looking for. Thanks--Jarekt (talk) 17:29, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

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