[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[John Vandenberg]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:41 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/full-tiff-support-is-comming/
>
> Funded by WMDE. Nice one :-)

\o/

This is most relevant for Wikisource (of course..;-) .  Many people
walk away from Wikisource because they cant grapple with this DjVu
format we love.  The PDF handler has recently been installed, after
waiting for two years.  Here is an example of a PDF being transcribed
on German Wikisource.

http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Geschichte_von_Berthelsdorf

These handlers of commonly used formats help other projects because
many people dont know how to losslessly transcode between different
formats, so it is better that they upload what they have and let
someone else do the conversion.

There are many PDFs on English Wikipedia that have been deleted
because they are "non-media without encyclopedic value" (groan).

For example, here is one I have now undeleted:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:2008_Sichuan_Earthquake_aftershockes_through_May_28.pdf

and put it onto the relevant article.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=2008_Sichuan_earthquake&diff=313274012&oldid=313098595

Hopefully the TIFF handler doesn't take 2 years to install like the PDF handler.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11215

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John Vandenberg