Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it from working?
It is very old and bad written and needs a complete rewrite.
It's entirely possible that fixing the bot is easier than hacking an internal rotate and reupload feature that runs on the image scalers.
It would be the best solution to fix that function in mediawiki. This would also allow real time rotation.
Or... Just making it possible to mark images as needing to be rotated correctly on output (given we already rotate on thumbnail generation)...
The thumb rotation is not always perfect and the file itself is not rotatet at all.
:-)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:51:47 -0500 From: bvibber@wikimedia.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an image
Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it from working?
It's entirely possible that fixing the bot is easier than hacking an internal rotate and reupload feature that runs on the image scalers.
Or... Just making it possible to mark images as needing to be rotated correctly on output (given we already rotate on thumbnail generation)...
-- brion On Jul 16, 2015 8:27 AM, "Steinsplitter Wiki" steinsplitter-wiki@live.com wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure if this is the correct mailinglist to write.
Every week on commons a bot is rotating hunderts of files, however this bot will stop working soon. In the last years tens of thousands files has been rotated.
Rotating files is a vital feature on commons and therefore indispensable. The bugreport [1] on phabricator is open since three years, but, unfortunately no dev is working on it. The bug has also a lot of +1 (tokens).
I am wonder if it is possible to enable and code review this feature asap.
:-)
Best, Steinsplitter
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35186
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