On 10/26/15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming that this image will be released with a Commons-compatible > license, sooner or later (maybe many years later), there will be a use case > for increasing the Commons file size limit to 194GB: > http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5817599570/astronomers-create-46-gigapixel-image-of-the-milky-way
That's not going to happen. > Perhaps in a timeframe in the nearer future, could MediaViewer be tweaked > to download and show only small portions at a time of large images and/or > tiled sets of of images? I think this feature might get a lot of use from > the moment of deployment. > Commons currently uses tool labs for this (See the interactive large image viewer like, on e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Station,_Elevated,_and_Dewey_Square.jpg ). I'm sure this would be a cool feature for media viewer. I doubt its going to happen in the near future based on current priorities (Obviously, its open source, so anyone could submit a patch. Maybe it would make a cool gsoc project to have a tile viewer in media viewer, albeit that's kind of on the large size for a gsoc project. -- -bawolff _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
