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From: Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:43 PM
Subject: List of clients which try to guess MediaWiki thumbnail URLs
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The current format of MediaWiki thumbnail URLs is very ad hoc: it depends
on the media handler, the contents of the file, and a dozen different
configuration settings. As a consequence, it is impossible to guess what a
thumbnail URL will be, given the filename and the desired size; clients
have to request it from the AP and waste hundreds of valuable milliseconds,
or use complicated logic to guess it and accept that sometimes they will
end up with the wrong result.
There is an ongoing discussion about rethinking the URL format so that it
can be used as a proper API. [1] As part of that, I would like to make a
list of clients which try to guess thumbnail URLs on their own, instead of
fetching them from the API - these clients will need to be updated if we
change the URL format. If you know of any, please add them to T153498 [2],
and preferably some information on what they do. Clients can include mobile
apps, user scripts, bots, whatever you can think of.
Thanks!
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214
[2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153498
Hi all,
We're excited to announce that we've rolled out several updates and
bugfixes for the Commons Android app[1] over the past couple of months.
Some of the major ones include:
- Automatic addition of geocoding template if uploaded image is geotagged
- Category suggestions based on the title entered for the image
- New, more detailed tutorial to educate new contributors on what types of
images should or should not be uploaded (special thanks to Pine for sharing
his Commons educational script which was used as the basis for this)
- Check for whether or not the file already exists on Commons, to prevent
upload of duplicates
Additionally, the kind folks at translatewiki.net are helping us set up a
translation project for our app, so hopefully localization should improve
in the near future.
Thank you all for your support and encouragement thus far! Feedback, bug
reports, and suggestions are always welcome on our GitHub page[2]. :)
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/
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Regards,
Josephine