On 12 December 2011 19:22, Möller, Carsten <c.moel...@wmco.de> wrote: > >> > It's been a requested feature for a while, Someone finally >> > got around to writing it > > Who has asked for such a silly feature? > Every uploader sees the image he/she is uploading and has made the necessary > rotation beforehand.
I've certainly uploaded screwily-rotated files before; it's fairly common, especially with some Windows software, for an image to be shown to the user as rotated while retaining its "set" rotation in a way that's not visible until it's sent somewhere. I agree applying it to old images was a bit of an odd thing to do (if they were visibly wrong, someone usually went to the effort of re-uploading them), but that doesn't mean applying it to later ones was somehow a stupid thing to do. As to how common it might be in general... testing on Commons is tricky, but I've spent a few minutes sampling the Flickr live upload feed. Over about 20 pages of 20 images each, I found eight wrongly-rotated shots, or eight in 400 ~~ 2%. It's not Commons, of course, but it is indicative. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
