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Should we have a more intuitive word for resizing images than "upright"?

Despite sizing images in absolute pixels being deprecated, that's how most of our images are. I think part of the problem might be that "upright" is not an intuitive parameter name. It certainly took me long enough to figure it out. When used on its own, "upright" makes perfect sense for scaling to 75% (of user default) for imgs in portrait orientation, but once you get to "upright=1.5" for wide images it's pretty much gibberish. I think if we introduced a more intuitive label, such as maybe "scale", we might have more success with people switching over. ("Upright" would continue to be supported, of course, but we'd have a more-easily memorized term as well.) I thought I might make a request at phabricator.wikimedia.org, but wanted to run it by here first. Would people support this, and would anyone prefer a different word than "scale"? — kwami (talk) 01:12, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good, for those who are still learning to write Wikisource. Of course, most editors who joined in the past few years are inserting and adjusting pictures by Visual Editor, so they have no need to learn the markup language anyway. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:19, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

@Kwamikagami: can you propose this change at WP:VPR? As I have said in the phab task, the technical part of adding an alias is easy, I have "scale" ready to commit. But they may not approve it if they think there is insufficient support for this. So proposing a specific word "scale" or something else at VPR and getting consensus for it will increase the likelihood of this being approved. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 18:29, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Okay, copying there. — kwami (talk) 18:32, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

For the record: this is not a correct page to talk about MediaWiki syntax. WP:VPT or Help talk:Pictures would have been a better venue for this discussion. This page is for discussions about layout, contents, and processes of the page Wikipedia:Village pump, not for discussions about image syntax. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:34, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Absolute garbage new interface

I don't know where else to put this, but I just want to say that the new webpage design is absolutely, irredeemably awful. I genuinely think that I will stop using this website, and that many others will too, if it is not quickly changed back, because the amount of blank space at the sides of the redesigned page layout is simply obnoxious, not to mention all the other awful features of this sudden and un-asked for change. I highly, HIGHLY suggest at the very least a "legacy mode" option that can be used to return to the previous user interface, because as it is this website frankly looks like trash. 2601:405:4400:9420:DC22:E380:D2EE:15A9 (talk) 03:22, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

One of the benefits of creating an account is the ability to revert back to the old skin, please consider creating one. There is more discussion about the new skin at WP:VPT. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 18:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

I gave the new format the heave-ho. I hate it. Give it a try! A loose necktie (talk) 14:49, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

For the record: this is not a correct page to talk about the new MediaWiki skin. WP:VPT would have been a better venue for this discussion. There is also an ongoing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rollback of Vector 2022.

This page is for discussions about layout, contents, and processes of the page Wikipedia:Village pump, not for discussions about MediaWiki interface. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:36, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Appropriate forum quest

Greetings, all. What is the appropriate forum to point out and possibly discuss a media report about malicious Wikipedia editing? -The Gnome (talk) 09:00, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

It's difficult to say without knowing more. You could start at WP:VPM. If it potentially involves admin stuff, you may want to post at an admin board. But you may want to check if it's already been discussed, whether it's appropriate to discuss it, and consider what you hope to achieve. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:18, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Template talk:Village pump page header § Standard color scheme

 You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Village pump page header § Standard color scheme. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:43, 16 August 2023 (UTC)