On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35:24AM +1100, Tim Starling
wrote:
On 13/12/11 01:36, Teofilo wrote:
Let us stop asking users to individually tag
every wrong picture! Let
us have some developers create a tool to find wrong pictures and
rotate them back to their original orientation!
We could make a list of all images with EXIF rotation. I'm not sure
how you would separate that into correctly-rotated and
incorrectly-rotated images. There's not any simple way to tell whether
a picture is sideways.
I wonder... if we run/simulate the old routine vs the new routine, and we notice that
there
is a difference in outcome between the two, we could add a "check me" template.
<scratches
head>
Every image with EXIF rotation will be different between the old and
the new version of MediaWiki. A Commons user (Umherirrender) already
generated a list of such images, using the Toolserver database, and
thousands of incorrect images were tagged for rotation.
The rate at which images were tagged was far in excess of the rate at
which RotateBot was able to rotate them, so Sam Reed did some work on
optimising it.
-- Tim Starling