2007/11/21, Stephen Bain &lt;<a href="mailto:stephen.bain@gmail.com">stephen.bain@gmail.com</a>&gt;:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>&gt; So although our works are usually sufficient for web use, it seems<br>&gt; clear that we cannot present ourselves as a serious kind of archivist,<br>&gt; culture-recording project, without introducing a RAW format and
<br>&gt; encouraging people to use it.<br><br>The important thing about having a RAW format is that people can<br>process it again to produce an image that suits their conditions,<br>which is particularly advantageous for print applications.
<br></blockquote></div><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; The disadvantage is that RAW files will not be directly usable in Wikimedia projects. RAW images can be processed automatically and transformed on the fly into JPGs, but the quality will not be good in most cases. So even uploading RAW, someone has also to upload a processed JPG file in order to have an usable copy.
<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#39;m not saying we should not allow RAW pictures, I&#39;m just saying that we should not encourage to upload RAW-only versions. Or... we should have a team with enough expertise to produce good quality JPGs from that RAW pictures.
<br><br>Barcex<br>