Wikipedia talk:Upload log

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Why did you revert to the large picture? I uploaded it smaller to begin with because it forces the page to write into the right margin. I'm re-uploading what I did the first time. -- Zoe

Would it be unreasonable for Wikipedia to impose a maximum image size (say around 50K or so)? This will cut down on bandwidth somewhat, since a large image file uses a lot more of it than a text-based article. -- Modemac 01:34 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)

A hard limit on that order would not be reasonable, as the upload area includes not just inline images, but also expanded detail images, sound clips, potentially video clips, etc. It does issue an (overridable) warning for files over 150k, and there's a hard limit currently of 2 megabytes.
Images that are larger than they need to be should probably be squished down a bit, we do have some overfat ones: visit Special:Imagelist, order by filesize, and get resizing. :) --Brion 01:45 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
Unless the high resolution is useless (blurry photo) or the file size results from bad compression, images should IMHO not be resized. They should be linked to from a thumbnail version, though. If we ever go into print, we will need high resolution photos for decent printing quality. --Eloquence 02:19 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)

Can someone explain this:

21:11 4 Jul 2003 Ohno2003 uploaded "[[:Image:|]]"

RickK 22:23 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)


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Help! I looked at 'my contributions' and it seems that I have somehow managed to revert an image when all I was trying to do was look at it! This was before I found the page Seven bridges of Königsburg. I was looking for Königsburg to find out what it is called now (which I have found out from the entry).

Could someone possibly fix this please? I would appreciate learning how it can have happened so easily please.

Songwriter 16:17 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Don't worry, I've reverted it back. You must have clicked on the 'rev' link which reverts it. It's easily reversible by going to the previous version that was correct and reverting it to that. Angela 16:25 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Thank you. Songwriter 17:46 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

It happened again:

23:02 6 Jul 2003 Sdf uploaded "[[:Image:|]]"

RickK 01:00 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I'm an admin at Japanese wikipedia. I have a question regarding upload log. Because Japanese wikipedia's upload log became fairly long (130+K or something), I am thinking about moving the page to something like "upload_log_archive1" (Japanese equivalent of that). But I am wondering if that is okay, or things get messed up if I do that. I noticed in English wikipedia, archiving is done by some admins. Is there any procedure I should follow? Just moving is okay? Should I move and delete the redirect page left at "upload_log" (redirecting to "upload_log_archive1")? Or should I do anything else? Thanks in advance for your advice, Tomos 01:04, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

If you edit the page, the last version goes into the page history and will remain unchanged. What you can do is just edit the log and clear out the list. New entries will be put directory into the new version, and the previous version in the history will still list everything that had been there before you changed it.
You can put the removed parts into a separate archive page as is done here, but it's not really necessary. --Brion 01:49, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Wow.. you seems to be omnipresent, Brion. And you seems to know almost everything - hope you can solve that mysterious server freeze, if you haven't yet. :) Tomos 03:56, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Any chance the log could be "fixed" so it doesn't show those images? It's already relatively large to download. Dori 18:19, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)

Damn! Sorry all, I made the same mistake myself, and now there is a huge image in the log (forgot the : in front of Image). The descriptions should not even be parsed, or there should be some preview (or I should be less clumsy). Dori 14:17, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)

Sorry for the huge spammage on the log. I thought that using msg would mean it would not expand, but this was the best way for me to do the uploads. Dori | Talk 17:39, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)