Re: [Wikitech-l] Data-URI and WebP for thumbnails, a cute experiment

2013-04-23 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Not sure what's a good solution for this, other than a really good download/sharing UI on images... Maybe the most obvious solution would be for Mozilla and Microsoft and the usual bunch of image editors to start supporting

[Wikitech-l] Data-URI and WebP for thumbnails, a cute experiment

2013-04-22 Thread Mathias Schindler
Hi everyone, Magnus was very kind to implement an idea that consists of two parts: 1. use of WebP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) instead of PNG/JPEG for thumbnails in Wikipedia articles 2. use of Data-URIs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme) to inline incluse those thumbnails.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data-URI and WebP for thumbnails, a cute experiment

2013-04-22 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: That looks like a cool idea. I am trying to experiment it on a few pages, and it seems to considerably reduce the number of web requests (for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh it goes from 120 to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data-URI and WebP for thumbnails, a cute experiment

2013-04-22 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Another possibility is to preferably load images on view/section expansion via JavaScript, which can potentially give you a chance to query the format compatibility in client JS and avoid any HTTP-level negotiation. (And also

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWTF working demo

2011-01-01 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Some people -- you can include me in this -- *actively* hate WYSIWYG editing, my comment was in no way about the pros and cons of WYSIWYG editing and the decision at Wikimedia to have its own turing complete language for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Toolserver-l] Archive of visitor stats

2009-09-20 Thread Mathias Schindler
2009/9/18 Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.com: I think it is extremely important to keep these files for later analysis by historians and others. Mathias Schindler also keep an archive or at least did till April (Berlin conference). He even bought a dedicated external drive for it. Right

Re: [Wikitech-l] Depth and other quality estimates

2008-11-27 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other estimates of Wikipedia quality do we have, that can be applied across language versions? The completeness of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have and the ratio of the