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Change default Talk signature timezone to UTC. (Other parts of RoB/Wiki are in UTC (or in local user time)) - (Fixed)
- Done Spiff (talk) 04:05, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Enabled SVG image support. (Note: Probably best done with some auto image resizing, like VipsScaler) - (Implemented)
- Done, still need to work on the resizing Spiff (talk) 04:05, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Deleted page "Running Rabbit Sausage(backup)" showing up in SMW properties. (although this issue initially seemed to be gone after first fix attempt, it seemed to turn up again some time later) - (Fixed)
- Semantic search: Page itself + known effected properties
  - Affected pages
    - Property Browse: Legacy:Sausage Making
  - Fixed Spiff (talk) 07:18, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Special:BrokenRedirects page reports a bad/problem case ":Property:Xsize (edit | delete) → Xsize" - (Fixed)
- The ":Property:Xsize" page can't be edited or deleted as its reported as a "Bad title". (note the leading ":" in ":property")
  - Seems related to a 2010 page move. (ie: done before RoB wiki setup/import)
    - Fixed Spiff (talk) 05:10, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

(Implemented)

mediawiki
Needs VIPS Installed. (VipsScaler extension is a wrapper around VIPS)
Intended to add image resizing support for RoB.
- Currently. Even if a large image is shown as thumbnail on a page, its still uses (and sends) the large image.
- Assuming it adds to wiki storage (cashed resized images). But should generate less bandwidth use, and smoother page/image loading.

(VIPS is one of my favorite image processing tools, although in the form of Nip2. --.MvGulik. 14:28, 9 February 2020 (EST))

Added Spiff (talk) 04:45, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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Hmm. phabricator: Undeploy VipsScaler from Wikimedia wikis"
Seems it also has some re-scaling problem in relation to some svg images (Darn.--Seems it might be a SVG commands mismatch). Like: File:Credotree-redo-001.svg (Screenshot,Firefox) (source svg displays correct)
--.MvGulik. 08:46, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

(Thinking about it ...)

mediawiki
Intended to easily get image size information.
- Useful for allowing selectively scaling up or down of images based on image size. (not a big thing though)
- Available alternative: 0) Setting up related SMW properties, 1) API pulling of image data, 2) Dumping SMW set-property cases with related image data to image-page.
  Plus point with this its not limited to just image-width and -height data. (the image png/tIME data comes to mind)
  Down side: Would need to be re-run/updated on images that are update.
No alternative Extensions known yet. (have not really searched for them yet)

(That's me "thinking about it") --.MvGulik. 16:43, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

(Implemented)

mediawiki
Allows for some visual editor control when it comes to templates editing. For both UI-input help & template output formatting.

Not sure if its not included or just disabled. Seems its now part of the default mediawiki package.
--.MvGulik. 20:02, 12 September 2022 (UTC)