[Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

Tue Dec 20 01:50:49 UTC 2011

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35:24AM +1100, Tim Starling wrote:
> On 13/12/11 01:36, Teofilo wrote:
> > Let us stop asking users to individually tag every wrong picture! Let
> > us have some developers create a tool to find wrong pictures and
> > rotate them back to their original orientation!
> 
> We could make a list of all images with EXIF rotation. I'm not sure
> how you would separate that into correctly-rotated and
> incorrectly-rotated images. There's not any simple way to tell whether
> a picture is sideways.

I wonder... if we run/simulate the old routine vs the new routine, and we notice that there
is a difference in outcome between the two, we could add a "check me" template. <scratches
head> 

sincerely,
	Kim "We Are The Robots" Bruning