[Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug

Mon Dec 12 19:22:23 UTC 2011

> > It's been a requested feature for a while, Someone finally 
> > got around to writing it

Who has asked for such a silly feature?
Every uploader sees the image he/she is uploading and has made the necessary rotation beforehand.

But perhaps the same people that organized the Indian desaster or the image filter acclamation were in charge.
Or someone posing as "Women from the South" have been asked to request the change (Yes I belive thats a possibility after this years experiance with the WMF)

> * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were 
> previously wrongly rotated and were fixed by the feature?

Guess: Zero - the uploader had already stored the image in the correct orientation.

> * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were 
> previously correctly rotated and were messed up by the feature?

Thousends - see the backlog of the bot. And there are more to come for months.

> i.e., was there strong reason to apply it to past images, not 
> just new ones?

Don't ask, you need no reason if you work directly with the WMF.

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