There is a lot of history around proposals to modify the behavior of upright, one of the suggestions was to introduce a *new* scale option, see what @cscott wrote in T351#1649303 so I'm not sure if adding it as an alias for upright is a good idea.

This being my first foray at contributing code to MediaWiki, my understanding is that patches like these are supposed to work on a broad range of wikis. Per Jdlrobson's comment above, this was not the most ideal fix. I don't want to submit another patch which is doubtful to be accepted since it is for something that is not widely used yet. Anyone else is free to submit the patch or file another task.

Most (nearly all?) wikis define infobox in common.css so the current patch is sufficient for them. When enwiki moves to templatestyles for infobox, any changes can be handled locally. I do agree T214233 is the long term fix.

The VPR discussion was archived - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_198#Should_we_have_a_more_intuitive_word_for_resizing_images_than_%22upright%22?

@Jdlrobson: the bug can be seen using this markup -

{|class="infobox"
|-
|style="line-height:4em;"|  <hiero>q:rw-i-wA-p-A-d:r-t-A-H8</hiero>
|-
|}
{|class="wikitable"
|-
|style="line-height:4em;"| <hiero>q:rw-i-wA-p-A-d:r-t-A-H8</hiero>
|-
|}

infobox class applies this style for td -

.infobox td {
	vertical-align: top;
}

This causes hieroglyphs to get top aligned for tables with infobox class, messing up their display

"scale" as an alias to "upright" sounds good to me. Will wait for a few days for any other suggestions before submitting a patch.

I request developers to please give more importance to fixing this. The Goan Konkani Wikipedia (gom.wikipedia.org) uses Flow and this bug is causing problems there. We want to add translation attribution templates to talk pages of articles. But because of this bug, the changes in templates are not getting reflected on talk pages.