Well, that's embarrasing.
For large tiff's, we use a program called vips to make previews. This program is not installed on the beta site. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116816)
Your files should work on the real commons site.
Note: For multipage tiff files. You should be able to make the first page as large as you want, but subsequent pages have more stricter size limits. So if your tiffs are single page images, all's fine.
Re Fae's comment: I'm not sure what you mean. Tiffs work fine in media viewer for me.
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On 10/27/15, McGregor, Nora Nora.McGregor@bl.uk wrote:
Hi Folks! I’m trying to upload some high-res TIFFS using the bulk uploader tool however in Beta it’s struggling with creating the thumbnails: Example: http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Tracing_of_Field_Sheet_9...
Does this reflect the reality of how my upload will render on thelive site?
When using the bulk uploader am I limited to using .jpgs?The original link to the URL for uploading is here: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/bldatasets/WOA/WOOS_18_3.tif Is it because TIFFS don’t render in the browser that the bulk uploader isn’t able to grab it and display in the same way as the jpg? Please advise, hoping to get these up asap and would prefer to use TIFFS. Cheers!
Nora McGregor British Library @ndalyrose
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