[Commons-l] Rotation bot/script

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On 9/8/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/9/07, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > Idea 1: A tool that downloads the image, rotates it and uploads it either
> > under the username of the one who called it or by its own username.
> >
Doable, but requires java, flash or activex on the user's side.
JavaScript uploading is impossible for binary data :(

> > Idea 2: A bot which does that. You can call the bot by {{rotate|right}} or
> > {{rotate|left}}
>
Doable.

> Idea 3: Do it within MediaWiki. We use [[ImageMagick]] for generating
> thumbnails of images, but it can do many other things too, including
> rotating images. It would certainly be possible to set up an interface
> to do this. It would be one of the more resource intensive types of
> requests though, so the devs might have something to say about such a
> scheme.
>
My preference. Is there no such extension?

> --
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
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Cheers,
Bryan