Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-126761-20180413204646/@comment-452-20180416144922

Kirkburn wrote: So far as I am aware the limit only stopped working for a few months. If you read the thread, you would be aware otherwise: Luma.dash wrote: I, for a long time, have noticed that this pixels limitation was only applied on PNG images.

If memory serves, I remember seeing a "12000 × 9000" pixel jpg being uploaded successfully, but it may be, as said above, a fault in the system. And: Darth Culator wrote: You've managed to break an astonishingly large number of already-uploaded images on one of your largest wikis. Bravo! While Darth Culator could have been more specific, it takes mere seconds to find this broken image from 2009: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:TCW_RH_KeyArt.jpg

Taking Luma.dash and Darth Culator at their word, it would appear that for at least 9 years, the limit was only applied to PNG and not JPG.

As I have only ever uploaded PNG in that resolution, I cannot attest either way to the limit for JPGs.

edit: After a brief search, it appears that this change 6 days ago is a likely cause. Before 6 days ago, jpeg resizing was apparently handled by imagemajick, and thus wgMaxImageArea did not apply to JPGs - and never did for the entire time that imagemajick was being used for that purpose.