Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Gilles Dubuc
_don't consider the upload complete_ until those are done! a web uploader or API-using bot should probably wait until it's done before uploading the next file, for instance... You got me a little confused at that point, are you talking about the client generating the intermediary sizes, or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Gilles Dubuc
Another point about picking the one true bucket list: currently Media Viewer's buckets have been picked based on the most common screen resolutions, because Media Viewer tries to always use the entire width of the screen to display the image, so trying to achieve a 1-to-1 pixel correspondence

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Gilles Dubuc
An extremely crude benchmark on our multimedia labs instance, still using the same test image: original - 3002 (original size) 0m0.268s original - 2048 0m1.344s original - 1024 0m0.856s original - 512 0m0.740s original - 256 0m0.660s 2048 - 1024 0m0.444s 2048 - 512 0m0.332s 2048 - 256 0m0.284s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Gilles, Thanks for the comparison images. When I was playing around with this a while back, I found that images with lots of parallel lines and lots of easily recognized detail were the best to see what sorts of problems rescaling can cause. Here's a few

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Brion Vibber
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote: _don't consider the upload complete_ until those are done! a web uploader or API-using bot should probably wait until it's done before uploading the next file, for instance... You got me a little confused at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Max Semenik
The slowest part of large images scaling in production is their retrieval from Swift, which could be much faster for bucketed images. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote: An extremely crude benchmark on our multimedia labs instance, still using the same

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image scaling proposal: server-side mip-mapping

2014-05-01 Thread Erwin Dokter
On 01-05-2014 16:57, Gilles Dubuc wrote: And here's a side-by-side comparison of these images generated with chaining and images that come from our regular image scalers: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109867/imagickchaining/index.html Try to guess which is which before inspecting the page

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon: Travel Information and Ticket sent

2014-05-01 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear all, sorry for cross-posting but I just have sent all participants of the Hackathon a PDF with travel information and a personalized public transport ticket. Should you plan to attend the Hackathon but have not received the Travel Information mail, then please contact me. Thanks and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugday on General MediaWiki bugs on Tue, April 29 2014, 14:30UTC

2014-05-01 Thread Andre Klapper
Thank you to everybody who participated in this bugday! We managed to update about 50 tickets and moved 29 tickets out of the General/Unknown bucket. More details on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140429 andre On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 00:21 +0530, Andre Klapper wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shifting from PHP mailer to Swift Mailer

2014-05-01 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi Tony, could you clarify your intention for this email? Are you seeking for more input whether it's a good idea, or if this actually needed? Or are you searching for agreement as you plan to work on a patch yourself? Or are you looking for somebody to work on this? It's not entirely clear to

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-GH] Wiki Loves Earth Begins!

2014-05-01 Thread rupert THURNER
hi, is there a possibility to get a banner on enwp for ghana to wiki loves earth, as this is this years main contest there? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014_in_Ghana rupert -- Forwarded message -- From: Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-GH] Wiki Loves Earth Begins!

2014-05-01 Thread Jeremy Baron
On May 1, 2014 6:22 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: is there a possibility to get a banner on enwp for ghana to wiki loves earth, as this is this years main contest there? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2014_in_Ghana That doesn't have anything to

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift Tracking and Remediation

2014-05-01 Thread Adam Baso
Update. -- Forwarded message -- From: Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift Tracking and Remediation To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org After examining this, it looks like