[Mediawiki-l] Animated Gifs

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 22 Oct 2010 22:35:14 Dan Nessett wrote:
> We are upgrading to 1.16. One of the things we would like to do is
> support animated gifs. Unfortunately, there is a surfeit of information
> about this issue, but nothing I have read so far gives a clear guideline
> how to go about providing such support. The history of this issue is
> found in at least the following places:
> 
> A Village Pump thread:
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphics_village_pump/GIF_thread
> 
> Some bug tickets, specifically:
> 
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22041
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23063
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23063
> 
> While the first ticket is marked resolved/fixed, the latter two (which
> cover the same or at least a very similar issue) are marked new. The last
> entry in the 3rd bug ticket is dated 2010-05-08.
> 
> So, I wonder if anyone is able (and is willing) to supply the following
> information:
> 
> + The version of imagemagick that we should install for animated gif
> support.
> 
> + Whether 1.16.0 is sufficient for non-buggy animated gif support.
> 
> + Is there any configuration required for animated gif support, other
> than setting $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea?
> 
> + Is there anything else we need to do to support animated gifs?
> 
> Thanks,

UserBase has a number of animated gifs - see some of the links from 
http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/HowTo/4.4 for examples.  No special features 
had to be enabled, and no special extensions installed.  The gifs worked on 
our old 1.14 setup, and work on our current 1.16 site.  HTH

Anne
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