On 07/12/2013 07:59 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Thursday July 18th, we're going to deploy something new on the sites: > VipsScaler - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VipsScaler . > > Upside: Resizing big images will be faster and more reliable, leading to > fewer errors -- no matter whether you get a different size by clicking > on a link like "Other resolutions: 320 × 239 pixels" or hand-editing the > filename to > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Thompson-Pond-2009.png/1000px-Thompson-Pond-2009.png > . Also, right now, there is an "area limit"- we don't let anyone upload > a PNG to our site that's more than 50 megapixels. The area limit will > go away; that should be nice for Wiki Loves Monuments! (There will > still be a filesize limit, of bytes). > > Downside: We'll see slight changes in visual quality, and a few images > might break. We've already tested this ourselves, but we'd love more > testing ahead of time to check for bugs so we can fix them early next week. > > There's a test page at https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:VipsTest > that you can use to test this and find bugs before we roll this out on > Thursday the 18th. I'm about to notify Commons on-wiki, but I'd > especially welcome more help liaising with Commons on this. > > Thanks to volunteer Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]> who wrote > most of the code, and to WMF's Greg Grossmeier, Jan Gerber, and Tim > Starling for working on this!
This launch is delayed till we can fix https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51370 . Release Manager Greg Grossmeier is ill right now but he'll have more information when he returns to work. Sorry for the delay. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
