I reworded my first post just now so Ventura s may be less connectable Didn t want to disrespect Ventura by altering their post so left s his as is response nexts I have read all that GIF shit I know the long story I curtailed but referenced via poison pills bit Animation would indeed be an odd choice for a traditional encyclopedia but we re not A point that comes to mind is is there a way for animated GIFs to degrade gracefully so that printed or other more static incarnations of Wikipedia might not be hindered too much by such an addition to the mix re GIFs sucking for photos Fuckin A I m most definitely with you there but there ain t animated JPEGs and on balance GIFs do nt suck that bad and where they suck at least on on screen resolution fronts they suck more so on the file size front and not the quality of visual representation front and since the actual impact of file size issues isn t grave it might be deemed acceptable Personally I m straight fucking PNG whigga but I ll be faqqed if I feel comfortable putting them forward as prime time worthy yet to any non techy types