Manual:$wgUseImageResize

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To disable dynamic server-side 1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Image administration|image resizing (thumbnails), set   to  .

This parameter requires a functioning version of PHP's GD library or  to take effect.

It has no effect if no image processing tool is available or configured.

Enabling resizing may generate error messages on pages with thumbnails if these components are improperly configured.

If you use ImageMagick, set  to   in  .

Make sure the  variable points to the (absolute) location of the convert command of your installation and that the command is executable by the web server process.

This setting was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.10.0 and re-added in 1.15.0, it will not work in MediaWiki 1.11-1.14.

In MW 1.10 and before, the default was false.