On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What was messed up was the > presentation of images that were already displayed correctly. Well, technically, they were displayed incorrectly. ;-) The image told the software "Please rotate me", and the software didn't. But the image would tell any other software the same thing, causing pain for re-users. So it was definitely an issue that needed to get resolved, one way or another. I don't know off-hand how many images are affected (the estimate on Commons is about 50,000, but I don't know what that's based on). The thing is, we've always gotten "drive-by" uploads by users who didn't bother to fix any rotation issues with their images after upload, and so we can't just go back and strip EXIF info from all old files, because some old files were fixed by the change. It looks to me like the only sensible response is human review followed by rotation of images that need to be fixed -- which is precisely what's happening, with a bot performing rotations as needed. I've asked Rob Lanphier to look at this as well and determine if an additional response is needed; if you think there's more we can/should do to help, please let him know. The best place for further discussion of this issue is: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Rotation -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
