i get "Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters" for that image but the full size one works.
not sure what's up with that.
mark
On 10/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I just tried uploading a 12MB TIFF (a scan directly from the Library of Congress) to Commons. It waited until the whole 12MB had uploaded, of course, to tell me it didn't want it.
- Is there any reason TIFF is off the allowed media types list?
Tiff doesn't offer much which isn't supported equally or better by another format we accept. Tiff is a grab-bag format... it can be a lot of different things, including things that we clearly don't want, and a lot of things that a lot of tools don't read.
There is that ... as TIFF is a container format, looking inside the container requires a reasonable chunk of the file.
Their TIFFs appear to be uncompressed. I converted it to PNG, thus making a pixel-identical copy that was half the size :-)
What is the 12MB tiff actually of? If it's a photograph, it should probably be made into a jpeg. If it's a 1bpp scanned document it should be probably converted into a djvu.
It's a photo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gifford_Pinchot_3c03915u.png
I converted it to PNG so as to have a pixel-identical copy of the LOC original. I'll be cropping and uploading a JPEG (for use in [[:en:Gifford Pinchot]], whose present image is State rather than Federal so of unknown copyright status).
(There are a LOT of nice high-resolution TIFFs on the LOC site, many of which will be US federal government public domain. Presumably saving as PNGs and making a nice JPEG for articles would be a useful thing to do.)
- Is there any way for the software to say "no" earlier in the
process of making a huge upload?
We really should have a good upload client which can not only help reject files early, but which could help users convert files, and walk users through the steps of providing all the right metadata. Commonist is almost that, but not quite. :)
Commons will be great soon! %-D
(What's the US patent exposure from having an MPEG-to-Theora converter on Wikimedia servers? Would running one on the toolserver be safe enough?)
- d.
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