Last modified: 2014-05-27 02:10:39 UTC
It would be really nice if thumb.php worked with ForeignAPIRepo.
it doesn't ?
I get the following error using MediaWiki 1.16.0: Error generating thumbnail The source file for the specified thumbnail does not exist.
I just looked at this. It seems that atm thumb.php only supports the local repository. This is a rather interesting issue. Normally, for foreign repositories, the thumb script will point to the original location of the file, if I understand correctly, for instantcommons, the thumbscript should thus be http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php (i'm not sure if it is set at all atm). Now the issue here is of course that we are locally caching remote thumbnails, so using a "remote" thumb.php is not really useful in this case. I'm guessing the idea here is that for ForeignAPIrepo, you want to use the local thumb.php script to generate thumbnails on the fly ? That would require some intricate changes to thumb.php.
(In reply to comment #3) > I'm guessing the idea here is that for ForeignAPIrepo, you want to use the > local thumb.php script to generate thumbnails on the fly ? That would require > some intricate changes to thumb.php. Yes, this.
*** Bug 49670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
