On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Even when MediaViewer was resourced, this feature never made the cut (you can see the plans at T77151 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77151>). It would be a fairly large project, and compared to other large reader-centric media projects (such as a better video player, or structured media data) the impact seems a lot smaller. Assuming there were mentors and students who wanted to do that, and we > decide we want mediawiki to be able to serve tiles of images (Not > entirely clear if we do). I don't see why we wouldn't want the capability; it's required if we want to provide a high-quality multimedia user experience. Whether it would be part of MediaWiki proper or some kind of microservice is an implementation detail.
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