On 13/12/2007, Florian Straub <flominator(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Hi there,
thanks to Luxo, we now have a bot that rotates pictures
(
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rotatebot). This is really great.
Cool!
How does it know how much to rotate by?
Could we maybe also create a bot, that allows people
to crop images online?
Blog software like
http://www.s9y.org/ and
http://www.pivotlog.net is
already able that. Maybe we can gpl some code from them ...
What do you think? Do we need such a need? Can we create such a thing? Do we
maybe already have such a thing?
I don't know that a BOT to crop stuff would be ideal, but we certainly
getting closer to the point that people expect basic image editing
abilities from directly within MediaWiki.
It was discussed a while ago on wikitech-l (I think) about integrating
Picnik with MediaWiki. The general conclusion there was that tying in
with proprietary solutions is not the way to go, but strangely that
didn't quite motivate anyone enough to finish writing their own...
cheers
Brianna
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