I was told thumb.php is evil (for lack of caching).
I'm using special:redirect with the width=640 parameter.
Daniel
On Sep 4, 2014 5:49 AM, "Jean-Frédéric" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>  > The first three we can get from pretty much either API, or extract
>>> directly from
>>> > a dump file. The latter is eluding us though, for two reasons. One is
>>> that a
>>> > file, like 30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg, is actually in the /b/ba/
>>> directory -
>>> > but where this /b/ba/ comes from (a hash?) is unclear to us now, and
>>> it's not
>>> > something we find in the dumps - though we can get it from one of the
>>> APIs.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, /b/ba ist based on the first two digits of the MD5 hash of the title:
>>
>> md5( "30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg" ) -> ba253c78d894a80788940a3ca765debb
>>
>> But this is "arcane knowledge" which nobody should really rely on. The
>> canonical
>> way would be to use
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Redirect/file/30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg
>>
>> Which generates a redirect to
>>
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg
>>
>> To get a thumbnail, you can directly manipulate that URL, by inserting
>> "thumb/"
>> and the desired size in the correct location (maybe Special:Redirect can
>> do that
>> for you, but I do not know how):
>>
>>
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg/640px-30C3_Commons_Machinery_2.jpg
>>
>
> If I am not mistaken you can use thumb.php to get the needed thumb?
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?f=Example.jpg&width=100>
>
> (That’s what I used in my CommonsDownloader [1])
>
> [1] <
> https://github.com/Commonists/CommonsDownloader/blob/master/commonsdownloader/thumbnaildownload.py
> >
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
> Jean-Frédéric
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