On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jason
>
> On 23.03.2015 17:40, Jason J. Evans wrote:
>>
>> At the National Library of Wales we are now at the stage where we need to
>> white-list our domain in order to start testing the Toolset. I have a couple
>> of questions at this point.
>
>
> Great :)
>
>> 1. We would like to link uploads to  image handles rather than a URL
>>
>> Here is an example of an object that re-directs to the catalogue entry
>>
>> http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1132312
>>
>> And a link to a reference image (the version we wish to upload):
>> http://hdl.handle.net/10107/1132312-11
>>
>> Is this method exceptable?
>
>
> This will probably fail because:
> 1 - GWT probably doesn't follow HTTP redirections (although this might be
> good if someone can confirm this)

GWToolset will follow the redirect.

> 2 - You will have to add both domain names to the white-list and the first
> one (handle.net) seems to be pretty generic and the strategy is to allow
> only what is absolutely necessary.
>
> I would tend to recommend to try to get directly links to *.llgc.org.uk and
> white-list only this domain.

agreed.

>
>> 2. I have registered with Phabricator in order to request the domain to be
>> white-listed. Do a create a new task to make the request?
>
>
> Yes, here an example:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91927

you can also use this link:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=Wikimedia-Site-requests&priority=50&title=Add+domain+to+$wgCopyUploadsDomains&description=Please+add+the+following+domain+to+the+wgCopyUploadsDomains+whitelist,+so+that+I+can+use+GWToolset+to+upload+media+files+from+that+domain.+I+have+provided+at+least+3+example+URLs+to+media+files+that+will+be+uploaded+with+GWToolset.%0A%0A%3Cdomain+name%3E%0A%0A%3Cexample+URL%3E%0A%3Cexample+URL%3E%0A%3Cexample+URL%3E

>
> A small side remark: In your example, the picture your URL points to suffers
> from two weaknesses which will impairs its reusing potential if uploaded:
> * The quality is not really good: ~100ppi (better have around 300ppi)
> * The format JPG generates automatically a loss of quality. A format like
> TIFF (without JPEG compression of course) should be preferred (if possible
> at all).
>
> That said, although Commons is primary interested in high quality pictures,
> none of these problems is blocking to upload the pictures.
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel
>
> --
> Volunteer
> Technology, GLAM, Trainings
> Zurich

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