[Commons-l] New JavaScript toy: "Gallery preview"

[Robert Leverington]

By the way this is a really neat tool, sorry for the spam, pushed send
to quickly.

On 14/05/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> New toy! Upon loading an image page, it will scan the categories of
> that image, and, for each category, show the last and next one in the
> order of "addition to the category" as a thumbnail. Sounds
> complicated? Have a screenshot:
>
> http://www.magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/gallerypreview.png
>
> I put it under [[MediaWiki talk:Gallerypreview.js]]. Installation
> instructions on the page:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gallerypreview.js
>
> (Now that I read it, "gallerypreview" is not exactly correct; catchy
> name, anyone?)
>
> Besides the "pretty" factor, it has some practical uses:
> * Shows number of images in the categories (spot one-image-only categories)
> * Complains if there's no/only "trivial" (licensing etc) categories
>
> The query.php interface won't give more than 500 results per category,
> so last/next information on larger categories /will be wrong/. If you
> find any more "trivial" categories, please let me know (or add them to
> the script, it's simple, really!).
>
> Have fun,
> Magnus
>
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