On 13/12/2007, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Hi there,
thanks to Luxo, we now have a bot that rotates pictures (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rotatebot). This is really great.
Cool!
How does it know how much to rotate by?
Could we maybe also create a bot, that allows people to crop images online? Blog software like http://www.s9y.org/ and http://www.pivotlog.net is already able that. Maybe we can gpl some code from them ...
What do you think? Do we need such a need? Can we create such a thing? Do we maybe already have such a thing?
I don't know that a BOT to crop stuff would be ideal, but we certainly getting closer to the point that people expect basic image editing abilities from directly within MediaWiki.
It was discussed a while ago on wikitech-l (I think) about integrating Picnik with MediaWiki. The general conclusion there was that tying in with proprietary solutions is not the way to go, but strangely that didn't quite motivate anyone enough to finish writing their own...
cheers Brianna