Larger thumbnails in category views (Community Wishlist/W413)
Community opportunity
Description
I was looking for a decent image in commons:Category:King Tomislav statue in Zagreb and came to realize that the thumbnail size cannot be changed (can it?). On my HiDPI laptop screen these thumbnails are 1" × 1" max. It'd be nice to have two or three zoom buttons on the page, say
1× 1.5× 2×
or
150px 200px 250px
We're already receiving width=250px images, I believe.
Related wish: Community Wishlist/W478 and W529: Larger thumbnails in MediaSearch wall-of-images views (size option on the page) and (for mobile) W534: Fix the display of Commons categories and Wikipedia article galleries on mobile
Assigned focus area
Unassigned
Type of wish
Feature request
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Affected users
category and gallery browsing
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Voting
This wish currently has 10 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.
Supporters of this wish
Support related wish: W397: In Commons category deepcategory view mode (wall of images), allow easily filtering offtopic subcats – you can already increase the thumbnails via the incategory (or deepcategory) search operator(s). This is not a reason against this wish but for it because this could simply be used by this feature (=quicker to implement) since users don't know of it and can't easily use it plus one would have to zoom in to change the size. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:02, 10 October 2025
Support This is already a config option in mediawiki. I would also support changing default gallery type of categories to packed. Bawolff (talk) 22:05, 5 December 2025
Support Waldyrious (talk) 22:42, 12 December 2025
Support Shivanshu k28 (talk) 18:30, 22 December 2025
Support Seems OK. نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 23:05, 11 January 2026
Support Multiple display modes for multiple namespaces. Please see c:Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2026/01#Proposal_to_change_default_display_of_galleries_on_category_pages, and thank the proposer, Bawolff. Henrydat (talk) 10:20, 10 February 2026