19 Nov 2008 23:05
TAGS: gadgets hp mini note polish sony sprzedam thumbnails vaio wikidot
Hi, it's Piotr and I have some news for you.
First of all, I started writing down any tips for Linux users of Sony Vaio SZ series, just like me. It's not complete, but really the time to figure all this out for me was less than writing it down, but I wish these all information was listed somewhere. That's why I started that list.
Secondly I have an announcement in Polish:
Sprzedam laptopa HP Mini Note 2133. Cena 1500. Stan: nieużywany, nowy z gwarancją.
Then I need to share with this one. I've moved Wiki thumbnails generator to other machine, make it running in parallel (4 thumbs at once) and decided to only make thumbnail for wikis with more than 20 edits (you get about 15 edits with just starting a wiki).
This all made the thumbnail generation process to take only about 15 hours for every public, not-spam, not-empty wiki. This means we can update them more regularly.
Another news is that the thumbnails are now generated as JPEGs instead of PNGs which makes them about 10 times smaller in weight than before. This also means, that in case you already use the old thumbnails, you'll have to update, now the URL is:
http://your-wiki.wikidot.com/local--thumbnail/medium.jpg and
http://your-wiki.wikidot.com/local--thumbnail/small.jpg
You have to wait till tomorrow to let them work, because they are still being generated.
Great idea to make JPGs instead of PNGs. Main page will not be 3MB then :D Now I trimmed it down to ca. 2.2MB by changing compression and format of some graphic elements.
When you say "we can update them more regularly", how often is this?
What if you made it update automatically with updates to the home page, or CSS code? Then you wouldn't need to schedule updates. Or what if you made a button in the admin:manage that updates the image upon click?
Still, it's a great improvement. Why did you have it in *.png format in the first place, by the way?
Hi,
we wanted to keep the thumbnails generation as separate from the Wikidot as possible. This means the generation is not triggered from within Wikidot. It's not done by the Wikidot server. It's kind of external task. As the site content is clearly not readable on the thumbnails, it's not very important to regenerate them after each edit.
In general the thumbnails are only kind of preview and visual representation of wikis made more for better promotion and distinction.
Hope this clarifies the subject a bit.
Piotr Gabryjeluk
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