Thread:Sillypenta/@comment-4216477-20150116180151/@comment-4216477-20150116203551

Sillypenta wrote: Ah, I see. Must have been due to saving it from the image viewer. On that note though, I think Boats has mentioned very large images slowing down pages so I wouldn't say it's imperitave to use the biggest possible resolution, especially since they appear small enough infobox. I'm afraid that boats is incorrect. Wiki uses a dynamic thumbnail system, which, like the name implies, creates smaller versions (or thumbnails) of every image when the full size is not needed. That is how you downloaded a smaller version of the image. You downloaded a thumbnail.

Here's an example of a thumbnail:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/brickfilms/images/9/94/BrickfilmingIsJustAwesome.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/212

As you can see when opening it, it's a 212x119 image, instead of the original 1280x720 image. It's actually a separate image. So the user will only have to download the small image on the specific wiki page instead of the entire image (unless they click on it and open the raw file) It doesn't matter what image size you upload, if Wikia says it's too big, don't upload it, but always try to upload the best version of the image you can. For another example of thumbnails, Rockydude uploaded a small version of the Bricks in Motion logo (taken from the other/older brickfilming wiki) and put it on the Bricks in Motion page. I replaced that with an image that was much larger and clearer.

Sorry, that got a little long, but I guess you get the point. ;)