Category talk:Needs image
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search wiki maintenance for "jpg are prefered image format. why do folks keep uploading png" if the link breaks
The result of this forum page is summerized as follows:
- The majority of images on the wiki are photograph-like and have lots of colors. In this case a JPG would offer the best files size versus image quality.
- Wurm players tend to prefer PNG. Now Wiki doesn't have any lineart, no transparency, very few if any text heavy images. But the main concern seem to be that players fear overzealous jpg compression.
- Apparently the server folks don't care about the additional space PNG takes up. This means PNG ends up being a kinda foolproof solution where we don't worry about compression at the cost of taking up more space.
- Finally, players can upload either. It doesn't hurt anything to continue to use both.
There is a past discussion on the talk page of template:item where this same question came up again.
