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[edit] Image license issues

I losslessly compress existing images and re-upload them. I don't change the license, I don't change the source, I don't do anything else other than reduce the bandwidth the image takes, and as such I don't break copyright - it was broken when I got there. Other than recompressed images, I've never actually uploaded another image to Wikipedia (I also think that the image uploading procedure has gotten WAY too complicated and filled with too much legalese and is no longer easily accessible by the average joe).

If you see me with a huge number of "copyright infringements" or "violating image upload policies" or "untagged images" against my name, ignore it. Any bot postings on this talk page having anything to do with incorrect images will be removed. RIUM+ (talk) 00:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] That thing you did

Hi there Riumplus. Just saw that you "switched [the barnstar image I uploaded] from truecolor to palette-based encoding to losslessly shrink the file size by 44%." [1] Well, I've no idea what that entailed, but it sure sounds like it was a good thing to do and I'm glad you did it. Thanks!β€”Encephalon | ΞΆ  12:13:19, 2005-08-26 (UTC)

No problem, they say space on the servers isn't a major consideration but I'm sure losslessly recompressing images won't cause any harm, it'd cut down on some bandwidth and make it load faster for those on dialup :) --RIUM+ 12:23, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
You just did it to one of mine as well - thanks for that! I'll bear in mind to save them that way in future (btw, Australia currently 19 for no loss...) Tonywalton  | Talk 15:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Same here, and kudos. Didn't realize I'd saved the picture of Kuribo's Shoe in 24-bit. Ylem 06:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes, thanks for that, 89% is a huge reduction. Could you please tell me how to do that myself? I can't find anything on Fireworks or any other program that will do that. Thanks again. Raven4x4x 11:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Coorporoo images

Hi, thanks for noticing my post on someone else's page. The reason why I wanted images was mainly to revive my memories having attended Coorporoo Primary School for two years. I am mostly interested in the lower primary section, or what used to be the Year 1 and 2 area. If you have time, some pictures would be great, but otherwise it's fine :) --Ali K 07:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Unfortunately, the "little school" building (grades 1 & 2) was sold a few years ago and became property of the nearby TAFE institute. What's more, a few months ago the primary school building was demolished and is no more. I'll take a walk around the school and grab some snapshots for you when I can, there's been some changes in the past few years - the swimming pool has been moved onto the lower oval, another building has been built in place of the original swimming pool, the tuckshop/canteen has been moved into one of the lunch sheds and a building has been built on the top oval to house the grade 1 and 2 students. You can see a slightly-outdated satellite view on Google Maps, right here. There's no extra building on the upper oval and the old grade 1 & 2 building is still around in that photo, but you can see the moved swimming pool at least. :) --RIUM+ 00:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
My memories?! They have changed a lot! Thanks for the Google Maps link, it was great. Oh well.. times change, people and places move on.. *sheds tear* :P Thanks again, --Ali K 07:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Could use some help with GIF to PNG conversion

Hi! I notice that you are into compressing images to reduce transfer time. If you have some spare time, could you help me get through Category:Images which should be in PNG format and Category:Images with inappropriate GIF compression? Just about all of these images need to be converted to the PNG format. ---Remember the dot 04:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I'm taking a little bit of a break from Wikipedia stuff right now (I've gotten engaged and I have my wedding to plan :) ), but before then I was in the process of completely revamping my whole PNG compression method. I've given up doing things by hand and I'm just writing my own personal GUI frontend to the various programs I use. This will mean it'll take around 30 seconds of human input-time to set up a conversion/compression run and then a few minutes while the computer thinks, but I can queue up a lot of jobs at once. With my old method there was no queuing - I had to physically sit at the computer and wait for things to finish and then start the next step in the same image, one image at a time. This way will mean I can queue up a few hundred images and then just let it go overnight, so I'll be able to do a lot more. Not to mention, I'm making it as multi-threaded as I can so it'll scream on multi-core CPUs. Even better, while I don't plan on setting up a networking protocol to allow communication with other computers so it won't technically be a beowulf program, I'm setting up a basic job system so that you just copy the job files over to another machine on a network, manually execute the program and it'll use that computer's horsepower as well. I can use a whole farm of machines to speed up the computation time, which means more images from Wikipedia can be processed, and I can select a higher compression on those images too. It still needs a lot more work until it's done, however (some of the block sizes could be tweaked and I have to figure out some not-so-brute settings that take a tenth the time but compress 90% as well. If I'm processing a 1600x1200 photo it can sometimes take half a day to process one image, so for the larger images I'd like to just reduce the compression settings and keep most of the shrinkage). Thanks for those two pages though; I didn't know about them. I'll go through them when I start up again!  :) RIUM+ 03:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply and congratulations on your wedding! That sounds like an interesting process you have going. Will you be making your personal GUI into a bot as well? β€”Remember the dot (t) 04:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Nope, I don't think I will. I'm making it more generic, so it can be used by anyone who needs to convert/recompress a whole bunch of images to the smallest-sized PNGs they can. Clipart libraries for OpenOffice.org, Firefox skinners, anyone really, rather than limiting it to just Wikipedia. :) RIUM+ 01:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
I only ask because I created the PNG crusade bot which could greatly benefit from a better compressor. Right now, it can't compress a lot of images to lower than their original file size. β€”Remember the dot (t) 05:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Looking through the source code of the bot, it seems that you're just converting the image outright and you're not using any external compression programs. I would have done it slightly differently, but to each their own. Either way, while I don't know what OS you're running the bot on, I recommend after you convert the image but before you do any size checks, you run it through an external compression program. PNGCRUSH is a good starting point, but hardly the best compressor out there for compression ratio/speed. It's sad but a fact of life that 90% of the PNG compression programs, and most importantly all the best ones, run only on Windows so if you're on another OS you can't get the smallest possible PNGs. If you happen to be on Windows, though, and you want my current compression queue, contact me sometime (preferably via email as I rarely get on IM these days) and I'll give you what I can.RIUM+ 05:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


I think what might be lacking is a statement that you were the one who took the screenshot and when it was taken. Could you, if you are in fact the uploader of the current version of this image, add that information? --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 14:50, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I wasn't the original uploader; I only recompressed an image that someone else had previously uploaded. I don't have the time to take screenshots any more and I'm still in the process of reworking my entire recompression chain, so I can't make any more edits for the time being where I'm shrinking image file sizes. You can see how much OrphanBot and others seem to hate me, when I wasn't the original uploader of ANY of the images I've been reported on. :p RIUM+ 07:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)