[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons reaches 2 million files

[Magnus Manske]

On 10/16/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 16. Auto-resize galleries according to window size. Difficulty: easy?
> (workaround: site JS)

Would be easy (for browsers that supply that information), but two problems:
* breaks caching => performance nightmare
* still needs JS when user resizes browser window
The JS call for rearranging could be called earlier (once the HTML is
there, and don't wait for the thumbnails to load), which would make
the rearranging (almost) invisible.

> 17. Category and gallery Flickr-like 'previews'. Difficulty: at the
> difficult end of easy (workaround: site JS)

Also:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/cgi-bin/flommons.pl

> An item I did not write in this list is that of "copyright checking"
> or "workflow" or something. I somewhat doubt that 5k images every day
> each get eyeballed by even one other person than the uploader. That is
> worrying. Patrol is not quite the right tool. Stable will not quite be
> the right tool. I don't know what the right tool will quite look like
> but I guess this is another "dedicated" difficult problem.

I did start a toolserver-based review thingy, but got distracted...

Cheers,
Magnus