Larger thumbnails in MediaSearch wall-of-images views (size option on the page) (Community Wishlist/W529)
Enable making the images smaller or larger depending on needs and preference.
For example, I'd like to categorize files in c:Category:Unidentified-language 2020s maps of the world into language-specific categories such as c:Category:Spanish-language maps of the world. However, even when using the wall-of-images view of the category in MediaSearch (one can go there in less than 1 second with 2 clicks if one has gadget DeepcatSearch enabled) the thumbnail previews are a bit too small to be able to always read the text in these files to quickly identify the language to move the files into the right category using the cat-a-lot gadget.
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Another example, is if one likes to just browse files using that view and prefers a larger display or if one occasionally wants images to display smaller so one can glance over more files at a time.
At the top of the MediaSearch page (not [just] in the user preferences) there should be some appearance options where one can increase or decrease the size of the images. These could for example be in a dropdown on the right of the "Sort by" options.
Related wish: W413: Larger thumbnails in category views
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- Created: 16:08, 23 March 2026
- Last updated: 16:14, 23 March 2026
- Author: Prototyperspective (talk)