[Commons-l] Rotation bot/script

[Artur Fijałkowski]

2007/9/8, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain w gmail.com>:
> On 9/9/07, Florian Straub <flominator w 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.
> >
> > Idea 2: A bot which does that. You can call the bot by {{rotate|right}} or
> > {{rotate|left}}
>
> 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.

or maybe something like `jhead -autorot *` - it fixes rotation
according to EXIF data in JPEG files (very nice tool for working with
photos from cameras that are not enough clever to rotate them, but
wise enough to mark they aren't ;)

AJF/WarX