Yes you are right. It only hits images with present EXIF data that has wrong rotation values. Therefore all images uploaded with wrong EXIF data have to be tagged by a template so that the bot can through the pages and correct the EXIF tag to have the right value.
I'm counting myself to the lucky ones that never uploaded images with EXIF tags, since i found them always useless. The stored data is neither sufficient for real tasks and it can easily be faked. Now the rotation is used and it causes more problems then benefits. ;-) nya~ Am 08.12.2011 17:27, schrieb Nathan: > Just to understand - on the last thread about this, it sounded like > the October 5 update forces MediaWiki to determine rotation based on > EXIF data. If the EXIF data is wrong or missing, the rotation may be > incorrect. As a result, a bot (RotateBot) with a gigantic backlog is > slowly fixing incorrect rotations? > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:06 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Gerard,_Heathrow_Terminal_5,_20110801_P1020447.jpg >> >> Who thought this was a good idea to automate? >> >> And how does one get this fixed? I can't even revert to a good copy. >> >> Has a list of these been made and human-checked? >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
