Re: [Wikitech-l] Is file location and file size aviable to templates

[Brian Wolff]

You can do {{filepath:Verschaffelt Moses von Michelangelo.jpg}} (Sorry,
probably should have said that in the first place)

-bawolff
On Jan 3, 2014 12:34 PM, "Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W." <
jaroslaw.w.tuszyn...@leidos.com> wrote:
>
> I am (vaguely) aware of API call capabilities, for example I know
 ImageAnnotator.js [1] has access to image size, since it is using it. But
Bawolff is right, I am trying to access it from Lua or template code.
>
> As for file path, I am still confused. I tried to use
Special:ExpandTemplates to test several possible syntaxes:
>
> [[Special:filepath/Verschaffelt Moses von Michelangelo.jpg]]
> [[Special:Redirect/file/Verschaffelt Moses von Michelangelo.jpg]]
> [[:Special:Redirect/file/Verschaffelt Moses von Michelangelo.jpg]]
> {{subst:Special:Redirect/file/Verschaffelt Moses von Michelangelo.jpg}}
>
> And the first 3 give me a blue-link while the 4-th one does not work. I
was hoping to get "
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Verschaffelt_Moses_von_Michelangelo.jpg";
string. KML files like [2] , called by our templates [3] hotlinking
directly to commons images.
>
>
> Jarek T.
> (user:jarekt)
>
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js
> [2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alluvial_fan,_Taklimakan_Desert,_XinJiang_Province,_China,_NASA,_ASTER.jpg/overlay.kml
> [3]
https://maps.google.com/maps?hq=http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/kml.php%3Fpage%3DFile:Alluvial%2Bfan%252C%2BTaklimakan%2BDesert%252C%2BXinJiang%2BProvince%252C%2BChina%252C%2BNASA%252C%2BASTER.jpg/overlay.kml
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wolff
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 1:12 PM
> To: wikitech-l
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Is file location and file size aviable to
templates
>
> On Jan 3, 2014 11:02 AM, "Raimond Spekking" <raimond.spekk...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Am 03.01.2014 18:37, schrieb Brian Wolff:
> > > On Jan 3, 2014 7:04 AM, "Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W." <
> > > jaroslaw.w.tuszyn...@leidos.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I was working lately on a template on commons related to automatic
> > >> overlay KML creation (see [1] for KML use on Commons). Two of the
> > >> items I need but do not know how to access are full file dimensions
> > >> in pixels and the url to the raw image (like [2]). I think with
> > >> Lua, I can use HTML Parser [3] to parse the file page, but there
> > >> must be a simpler way to access those.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Jarek T.
> > >>
> > >> (user:jarekt <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jarekt> )
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding/Overlay
> > >>
> > >> [2]
> > >>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Covington%2C_Indiana
> > >> _map_from_1876_atlas.jpg
> > >>
> > >> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:HTMLParser
> > >>
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> > >
> > > You can link to special:filepath/filename to get path, but full
> dimensions
> > > are unavailablr.
> > >
> >
> > Wouldn't it be a solution to add the full dimensions (+ MIME type etc)
> > to the API (&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=extmetadata), would it?
> >
> > Raimond.
> >
> >
> >
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> I believe Jarek is looking to get the info from wikitext, so that wouldnt
help him. Additionally if you have access to the api, you can use
iiprop=dimensions already.
>
> This is a somewhat commonly requested thing (e.g. some folks on wikipedia
want to make a gallery lua module that takes aspect ratio into account), so
adding an interface to  lua to retrieve this info would make sense imo.
>
> -bawolff
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