[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons reaches 2 million files

[Christophe Henner]

What is the 2 000 000 uploaded file? ;D

Ok it must be really hard to know, but we need to pick one, at least
for the press release.

On 16/10/2007, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > A couple of features people may not be aware of:
> > - geocoding - every picture that is geotagged gets a little "Earth"
> > icon and clicking on it launches a map that shows the image located on
> > the map, as well as other geotagged images  nearby. It's really cool.
> > The geocoding folk are very innovative and welcoming so if you are
> > interested in helping them out or just finding out other cool ways
> > this can be used, please talk to them.
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding
>
> I know I'm going offtopic, but anyway. I've asked around, and I
> haven't yet found how properly do scaling on geocoding.
>
> For example, [[Image:Uxmal.jpg]] no matter what I do trying to set the
> scale as described on many documentation pages ( | scale=N }} ), I
> always get a whole continent view when clicking the little globe to
> open the miniatlas, instead of a zoomed view (maybe a few kilometers
> width)  which would be more appropiated  for building photo than a
> continent  one (thousands of km width).
>
> I've tried many things as it can be seen on the historial, and now,
> since people who know how wil lread this, could anyone fix the scaling
> on image for me so I can see how it's done and proceed to do it on my
> other images?
>
> Sorry again for going offtopic
>
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