[Wikipedia-l] A problem with uploading images

Mon Mar 15 01:20:06 UTC 2004

I think when you uploaded the large version of your picture, the picture you
saw on WP was still the old version (cause of your browser cache system) but
with the new file size. To visualize an updated picture, you need to refresh
cache by pressing Ctrl + F5 (on Mozilla, Firefox, IE, etc.).

Aoineko

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke at volny.cz>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] A problem with uploading images

>
> Hello all & happy Pi day,
>
> I had recently some problems with uploading images to Wikipedia.
> I think the interface doesn't work very well and someone of the
> programmers should look at it.
>
> I uploaded a small image of a braille calendar
> (braille_calendar_cs.jpg) and everything was ok. But then I noticed it
> would be much better to upload a big image and use the new image
> syntax to produce a thumbdail for the [[braille]] article.
>
> So I tried to update this picture with a larger one with the same
> name by uploading the new version. But something went wrong, because
> now the picture (braille_calendar_cs.jpg) has a horrible quality.
> This is not caused by strict compression, it was ok on my local system.
>
> Because I thaught that the problem is only that the first image was
> of a different size, I tried to upload it under a different name.
> I choosed braille_calendar_cs-2.jpg, but it didn't work. No image
> is displayed on the corresponding image page. I tried to do it again
> with no result. Yet the path on my local system is correct and the
> image is also correct. No problems under gqview, gimp, gnome eyes.
>
> Then I finally managed to upload the file under the name
> braille_calendar_cs_2.jpg and it's finally correct. But I got the
> impression that the uploading subsystem is quite buggy or not well
> finished.
>
> It would be great if some of the programmers could devote some of
> its time to carefully test it and fix some of the problems.
>
> Also, could someone please point out to me, how do I delete these
> "garbage" pictures? Please don't delete them now, because they might
> serve as a reference for the bug-hunters, but if something like this
> happens to me in the future, I'd like to be able to clean after myself.
> (Because there is a risk that someone finds the bad quality picture,
> not knowing about the better variants, and uses it somewhere -- which
> is highly suboptimal.)
>
> Thank you & thanks everyone for Wikipedia!
> Hynek Hanke
> http://www.freebsoft.org
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