Hi there,
thanks to Luxo, we now have a bot that rotates pictures (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rotatebot). This is really great.
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?
Best regards,
Flo
On 13/12/2007, Florian Straub flominator@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
According to the dox you add {{Rotate|90}}, {{Rotate|180}} or {{Rotate|270}} into the image page. The values being the number of degrees clockwise to rotate.
The template puts the image into a category and the bot picks it up and processes it from there.
** On 13/12/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/12/2007, Florian Straub flominator@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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"Brianna Laugher" brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote on Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:20 AM:
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.
Maybe we could create a JS thingy, that allows the user to select the box, that should be cropped. The JS could save the coordinates to the image description and the bot could do the rest ...
Regards,
Flo
Florian Straub 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.
Good. I planned doing something like that some months ago, but got other things and forgot.
Maybe we could create a JS thingy, that allows the user to select the box, that should be cropped. The JS could save the coordinates to the image description and the bot could do the rest ...
Regards,
Flo
Don't reinvent the wheel. Box-selecting is already at [[MediaWiki:ImageBoxes.js]]