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Scal<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Needs and technology evolve over time. In the early days of <strong>Wikipedia</strong> many photos and<br />
diagrams were created <strong>in</strong> what were then considered good <strong>in</strong>l<strong>in</strong>e sizes. We now want to<br />
support pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g, larger high-resolution displays, and simply zoom<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> to see th<strong>in</strong>gs more<br />
clearly... thousand of old images had to be recreated from scratch to make th<strong>in</strong>gs futureproof.<br />
For photos this is handled by upload<strong>in</strong>g the biggest, cleanest JPEG available and<br />
produc<strong>in</strong>g scaled thumbnails server-side; for diagrams, maps and logos, vector images can<br />
scale down and up as necessary.
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