Researchers have developed new software that will allow
users to put more and larger images on Wikipedia.
Every day millions of users upload thousands of images to
Wikipedia. Until now the processing system needed a lot of resources and this
limited the size of the images allowed.
VipsScaler is a new Mediawiki extension based on the very
fast, free VIPS image processing system that has been developed by Dr Kirk
Martinez from the University of Southampton and Dr John Cupitt from Imperial
College London. Switching to VipsScalar has let Wikipedia remove many of its
limits on image uploading as it processes large images quickly, using only a
little memory.