Maybe the tile viewer project could be segmented in a way that it could be spread over multiple volunteer developer tranches. Quim, what do you think?
Pine On Oct 26, 2015 10:37 PM, "Brian Wolff" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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