Max showed me how to get the file page url from the api. So if all we have
is the image name we can get the file page url automagically. I attached a
sample query to:
https://trello.com/c/cXEMxGb3/8-5-retrieve-file-metadata-from-commonsmetadata-api-and-display-it-in-the-panel

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Per request in meeting, thought I'd stick it on the public list for
> references. :)
>
> As I recall there should be three possible URL formats for images embedded
> in <img> tags in wiki pages or returned as thumbnails via the API:
>
> http(s)?://
> upload.wikimedia.org/(project)/(subdomain)/(hash1)/(hash2)/(base-filename)
> ^ original-size images
>
> http(s)?://
> upload.wikimedia.org/(project)/(subdomain)/(hash1)/(hash2)/thumb/(base-filename)/(size)px(possible-other-options)-(base-filename)(.render-extension)
> ?
> ^ thumbnails
>
> http(s)?://
> upload.wikimedia.org/(project)/(subdomain)/(hash1)/(hash2)/thumb/(base-filename)/(size)px(possible-other-options)-thumbnail.(render-extension)
>  ^ this last is used in cases where the filename is very very long and we
> can't actually prepend all the options to the filename (happens mostly in
> South Asian languages where UTF-8 is 3 bytes per letter)
>
> * project: 'wikipedia' in all cases we need to handle; local files on
> Wiktionary etc will have it separate but we don't use these.
> * subdomain: language 'en' etc for Wikipedias, subproject for special-case
> wikis like Commons/'commons'
> * hash1: first digit of md5 hash of the filename (you don't need to use
> this here, consider it opaque)
> * hash2: first 2 digits of md5 hash of the filename
> * base-filename: the base filename -- you want this! This is the raw
> filename for files served at original size; thumbnails will use it as a
> directory component.
> * render-extension: files other than PNG, GIF, and JPEG are rendered to
> one of those, usually PNG. So you'll see things like ".svg.png" at times --
> but never ".png.png". These only appear on thumbnails.
> * size: thumbnails are always given with the pixel size.
> * possible-other-options: Note that other options may include a page
> number for PDF, DjVu, or TIFF files, or a time position for video
> thumbnails. To avoid parsing that stuff out, consider using the
> subdirectory base name on thumbnails if possible.
>
> -- brion
>
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