Uploaded images lose quality

[richardbatty]

If you drag and drop an image onto the factory to upload it, there is a noticeable loss of quality, especially when you double click on the image to see it in the viewer.

[paul90]

The drag and drop does some fairly aggressive image compression/resizing. This is in part so that the image can be embedded within the page, so that it moves with the page when it is forked and does not make the page too big.

The current code comes from fedwiki/wiki-client#117

An alternative mechanism for introducing images into the wiki uses the transporter mechanism, see Image Transporter. The server code behind this is here.

More recently there is an ongoing discussion about creation of a 'Federated Wiki Commons', fedwiki/wiki-client#173 adds some initial support using IPFS for storing better resolution version of an image.

[almereyda]

There is a proof of concept for publishing images and their metadata on IPFS with using the IIIF specification, including real-time collaboration, documented in ipfs/notes#40 (comment)