On 10/27/15, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I was more thinking, we might want to take a moment to consider the future of thumbnail naming before adding lots of complexity to how we specify thumbnail options. I've heard some people complain about our thumbnail option naming system Then again maybe not. I haven't really put much thought into if that's even an issue or not. -- -bawolff _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
