[Commons-l] Djatoka

[Michael Peel]

Is the image actually too big for MediaWiki to handle, or just too  
big for the maximum file upload size as currently set? Are there  
limiting factors within the Mediawiki software or the image tools  
that it uses that prevent rescaling of large images for online viewing?

I would love to see something like Zoomify/SlippyMap for all image on  
Commons (or even direct on Wikipedia) as a way of zooming in on  
detail rather than needing to download the whole image - presumably  
that's essentially what Djatoka does? Also, presumably the limit in  
getting this working with MediaWiki is developer time - or are there  
other limitations? Is this something that would come under the  
Multimedia Usability Project?

Mike

On 11 Mar 2010, at 01:54, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Hoi,
> I blogged about the 15 meter Indonesian story cloth that has been  
> restored and patched into a single 992.4 MB file by Durova. Using  
> the MediaWiki software, it is unmanageably big. There are many  
> image files that are too big to handle.
>
> Djatoka is open source software that allows us to manage files that  
> are a tad too big.
>
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/indonesian-story-cloth- 
> there-for-you-to.html
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/search/label/Djatoka
>
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
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