There shouldn't be (anymore). Do you have any examples of files with that error?
There are a few (I mean few as in probably less than 10 over all of
commons) tiff files that don't render that I am aware of, but they
don't have that error and instead just time out.
--
-bawolff
On 10/28/15, J Hayes <slowking4@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks - non-render size up to 50 MP which should get most images in use
>
> but there are still some larger
> " Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters or TIFF file with
> more than 50 MP "
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/15, J Hayes <slowking4@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > large tiffs are not rendering in commons.
>> > "The bug is in the MediaWiki thumbnail generator,"
>> >
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Help_desk/Archive/2015/02#Polar_bear_in_a_snowstorm.3F
>> >
>> > vipscaler might be a solution
>> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/VipsScaler
>>
>> Oddly enough, vips scalar was the problem here. There used to be a bug
>> that causes that, its been fixed now (for a long time now), but the
>> old version was cached. If you see any images that are almost entirely
>> white with a bit of black around the edges, do ?action=purge to the
>> image description page.
>>
>> However there appears to be a second bug (
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116947 ). Rendering the file in
>> sizes less then 2523px seems to be broken.
>>
>> --
>> -bawolff
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