if you have on your hard drive, i would suggest also vicuna uploader rather than commonist https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Vicu%C3%B1aUploader
GWtoolset is good for third party uploads from web but if you have on your hard drive it may not be an improved process
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Stefan Kühn, 17/11/2015 19:51:
It is total 16 GB in the JPG-Version. The originals are TIFF with 40 MB each.
So you are reducing the size by 98.7 % on average compared to the original? Quite a pity.
Ok, this could be a way. I can upload this picture at Tool Labs with
SFTP. And then I have a URL like https://tools.wmflabs.org/my_project/images/00001.jpg
Yes, though until recently those could not be used directly in GWT.
Yes, I have enough bandwidth.
One more question: Should we upload TIFF or JPG? Ok, TIFF is a lossless image format. But I think JPG is more in use.
A common practive is to upload both. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Lossy_and_lossless_compression https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#TIFF
For a 1000px image of a postcard I think that both reducing space with JPG compression and uploading a "raw" TIFF makes little sense. If I were you I'd just convert to PNG and upload that.
Nemo
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