-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Manske Sent: 20 February 2008 22:14 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: [Wikitech-l] Interface embarrassment rant
<rant> I'm currently working on the Scott Forseman image donation, cutting large scanned images into smaller, manually optimized ones. The category containing the unprocessed images is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ScottForesman-raw
It's shameful. Honestly. Look at it. We're the world's #9 top web site, and this is the best we can do?
Yes, I know that the images are large, both in dimensions (~5000x5000px) and size (5-15MB each). Yes, I know that ImageMagick has problems with such images. But honestly, is there no open source software that can generate a thumbnail from a 15MB PNG without nuking our servers?
Thought MediaWiki had a JobQueue ? Can't it just dump the resizing of large images into that to be off loaded?
Jared