On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:41 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/full-tiff-support-is-comming/
Funded by WMDE. Nice one :-)
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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_...
and put it onto the relevant article.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=2008_Sichuan_ear...
Hopefully the TIFF handler doesn't take 2 years to install like the PDF handler.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11215
-- John Vandenberg