Template talk:Ricon

Maintenance
How is the maintenance of hotlinked vignette-URLs supposed to work, if the corresponding image is updated? Are the images listed as unused if they are only hotlinked? Could the hotlinked images still be ordinary links to the relevant pages in the File: namespace, e.g., with an additional parameter for the source name? – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  08:45, January 15, 2018 (UTC)


 * If the image is updated then the hotlinked version will eventually update as well unless a specific image revision is included in the hotlink URL, but yes they would be listed as unused if they were only hotlinked. These images could be made into links optionally (see w:c:diepio:Template:SIcon) but they’d have to be external links, so it would not benefit from Special:WhatLinksHere. Depending on what Kirkburn decides this template may be put out of use anyway though.
 * Your version is very obviously better, it's a good kludge, but actually I think that's a bug: If "something" (what?) can create good thumbnails, why isn't it used generally? I fear the scaling in rsvg-convert sucks, I prefer imageworsener for this job. – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  21:03, January 15, 2018 (UTC)


 * Aye other Staff members I asked about it seemed to indicate it was a bug as well, I’m intending to write a bug report at some point.


 * One major thumbnail generation issue on commons was to add a sharpen pass as (last?) step to imagemagick (roughly, 2015), everything else was about complete failures for huge images. – Dunnoob &#x1F4A9;  07:21, January 18, 2018 (UTC)