> Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it from > working? It is very old and bad written and needs a complete rewrite.
> It's entirely possible that fixing the bot is easier than hacking an > internal rotate and reupload feature that runs on the image scalers. It would be the best solution to fix that function in mediawiki. This would also allow real time rotation. > Or... Just making it possible to mark images as needing to be rotated > correctly on output (given we already rotate on thumbnail generation)... The thumb rotation is not always perfect and the file itself is not rotatet at all. :-) > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:51:47 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an image > > Out of curiosity what is the problem with the bot that prevents it from > working? > > It's entirely possible that fixing the bot is easier than hacking an > internal rotate and reupload feature that runs on the image scalers. > > Or... Just making it possible to mark images as needing to be rotated > correctly on output (given we already rotate on thumbnail generation)... > > -- brion > On Jul 16, 2015 8:27 AM, "Steinsplitter Wiki" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am not sure if this is the correct mailinglist to write. > > > > Every week on commons a bot is rotating hunderts of files, however this > > bot will stop working soon. In the last years tens of thousands files has > > been rotated. > > > > Rotating files is a vital feature on commons and therefore indispensable. > > The bugreport [1] on phabricator is open since three years, but, > > unfortunately no dev is working on it. The bug has also a lot of +1 > > (tokens). > > > > I am wonder if it is possible to enable and code review this feature asap. > > > > :-) > > > > Best, > > Steinsplitter > > > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35186 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
