[Commons-l] Djatoka

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The file of the story cloth is almost 1 gigabyte. MediaWiki will download a
picture from top to bottom. This is prohibitively expensive and also the
user experience is not good... Think also about those poor people who use
wikipedia on their mobile !!

Rescaling makes sense up to a point. The point is the size of the screen,
not the size of the picture.

The argument about developer time is a nonsence. It is about priority. There
is now a project for Commons usability / user experience and in my
perception this is where signals like this belong. In the end this is where
it may get its priority. Djatoka has the advantage of a universal apeal.

Did I tell you that Djatoka is open source ?
Thanks,
      TerardM

On 11 March 2010 10:58, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:

> 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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