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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)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
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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