User blog comment:Kirkburn/Photo gallery launch/@comment-126761-20100329125543

@BulldozerD11: I believe external search engines should be able to find them from the context they're used on the page. We still hope people name images sensibly of course. The size limit isn't hard coded - it's just a case of what we can reasonably fit on the interface - you should be able to make it bigger in the wikitext. Box is square is because it needs to be consistent across all images in the gallery. We want to improve this though, along with giving people a switch to change the gallery alignment, and improving the general gallery design.

@LordTBT: We made a concious decision to try out using "photo" instead of "image" for this project. We're watching to see how it goes.