Commons:Bots/Requests/ImageConverterBot: Difference between revisions

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Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Convert TIFF files to JPEG files and link both. As requested at Convert Commons:Bots/Work requests § Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith to JPEG. The TIFF files at Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith are [recursively] loaded into the bot and converted to JPEG using Wand, a Python binding for ImageMagick. The Exif metadata is copied over using PyExifTool, a Python binding for ExifTool by Phil Harvey. The metadata groups that are being copied over, that I've discovered so far, are: Author, Camera, Composite, ExifIFD, GPS, ICC_Profile, IFD0, IPTC, Location and XMP-crs. The entire metadata can be copied indiscriminately if that is preferred rather a selection. The new JPEG file will have the same wikitext as the TIFF file, with an addition of {{{other_versions}}} gallery and but a removal of categories such as Uploaded by xyz user as it will be retained in the TIFF file page. The TIFF file page is edited with a link to the JPEG in the gallery and all the categories are removed with the addition of Category:LC TIF images with categorized JPGs. If duplicates are found, using the checksum, the page is skipped over and marked for manual verification and linking using gallery. The OpenCV strategy as described at User:Fæ/LOC#Housekeeping is rather out of my reach. The bot is being written using Pywikibot and is intended to run on Toolforge.

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 5

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Python (Pywikibot)

-- DaxServer (talk) 15:07, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I'm not able to understand the issue we are trying to solve. All previews of these gigantic TIFFs load just fine for me (in under 2 seconds). I do not expencience much difference as compared to JPEGs. --Schlurcher (talk) 14:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]