Category:Animated gifs exceeding the 12.5MP limit
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50MP - limit right now.
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For example this featured image of Canadian evolution is frozen but if you click on this direct link you can view the animation.
In an April 2010 Village Pump discussion the behaviour described in mw:Manual:$wgMaxAnimatedGifArea#Explanation was noted. Note that this is likely to be a temporary situation, although a solution is not currently up-coming.
Resources:
- Commons:Animated image resources - See section with tools and info for reducing the size of GIFs. See also the section for converting the GIF to a video that uses much fewer kilobytes.