Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20170123193022/@comment-168424-20170127193019

197.218.81.166 wrote: Performance should be one of them. That's what Wiki (quick) actually stands for, and unfortunately all these extra bells and whistles that get added come with a performance cost.

An interesting thing that wikia seem(ed) to do is  improve performance by sometimes serving webp files. It could also whitelist this file format to allow users to upload it and download it, as it seems that and MediaWiki now natively handles it, and shows png for browsers that don't support it.

Similarly, perhaps there could be discussions around audio and video (e.g webm) contributions such as a plan to make contributions easier by finally whitelisting mp3. Its decoding patent allegedly has expired, is available in some opensource OS, and by the end of the year so will its encoding patent.

Sorry Chrome fanboi, until most mainstream browsers support webp natively, transitioning to use it is a bad idea.