On 6 Feb 2008, at 03:23, Brianna Laugher wrote: > You could do this: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?w=200&f=Male-total.jpg > > This generates a 200px-width thumbnail. However I believe it > bypasses the cache, so it's not appropriate to use this to hotlink a > thumbnail. If you did it once per image to make the thumbnail and > then save it locally I think that would be OK. > Oh and I meant to say... > you may need to try doing that on en.wikipedia.org first and it that > doesn't work, then commons.wikimedia.org . I don't know that there's > an easy way to check if an image has been "really" uploaded to en.wp > or Commons, because images on Commons work transparently *as if* > they were on en.wp.
Ok, we don't want to save the images locally, so I suppose it makes sense to keep our current behaviour for images (check in the en.wp database first; if it's not there assume it's in commons; construct the cached thumbnail URI by doing the md5 hash magic). Thanks a lot, Brianna! Richard > > > cheers > Brianna > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/_______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
