Encyclopedia Dramatica talk:Image Selection Process

Other Ideas

I think I'll add one more section tomorrow about file formats and what format to use with what and when, mostly covering the distinction between palette based format options and true color format options, as well as a brief summary/description of transparencies and their usage. --Onideus 06:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Getting content back from OhInternet?

What do we do about content from Ohi? Example: Their Dos Equis guy page has a lot of the images that are missing from ours. We were the ones who uploaded those pictures in the first place, so if we start copying them back, is that going to be okay or will it cause more drama? Aqualung 10:18, 12 October 2011 (CEST)

You can take whatever you like off their server for use here. I've actually done that a few times myself, looked for missing content on their server. They don't really "own" any of it and even if they did they can't complain since it would fall under Fair Use irregardless. Butter Queen's ultimate failing was that she ASSumed that she "owned" Encyclopedia Dramatica...which she never did. ED is effectively "owned" by the public, its content that is. The only thing she ever truly owned was the domain name, nothing more, which basically amounts to squat when you get right down to it. --Onideus 17:41, 24 December 2012 (EST)

Copy Editing And Improvement

Someone should probably go through and copy edit all of this, since most of it was written by just me, it could use another pair of eyes to go through it. Some things might also be explained simpler, as I have a tendency to be overly technical sometimes, as well as use "big words" that might sail on over the head of yer average EDiot. Could also use some new/better images on the side. The Doug one is pretty funny, but the other two are kinda...meh. I don't think there's any mention of TinEye either, which is kind of important...maybe add a section along with it, as far as replacing images with better versions. --Onideus 23:04, 27 December 2012 (EST)

"File extension does not match MIME type"?

WTF? It's a jpg image of a magazine cover. Even WikiPeedonYou allows them. Que passa, Baboso?? BitchwithBallClippers 15:46, 30 December 2012 (EST)

This is a problem on your end, not a problem with ED. Basically someone took a file and renamed the extension and then you tried uploading it. Most modern browsers are pretty forgiving in that they have "fallback" and "quirks modes" in which they'll try and "guess" and compensate for stupid shit that users have messed up for one reason or another.

ED's image upload process however examines the file extension as well as the ~actual~ MIME type, the reason being is because it's a potential SECURITY issue, in that there are some forms of exploits which utilize the obfuscation of file types and programs that will try running/opening them.

To put it more simply...try renaming the file extension. If it's ".jpg" then try renaming it to ".png" or ".gif" and it'll most likely work. HTH! --Onideus 20:15, 18 February 2013 (EST)

Thanks. BitchwithBallClippers 01:01, 19 February 2013 (EST)

Old/Nostalgic Junk

These were on the old version of this...they're pretty much shit, but let's keep them around for prosperity.

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...yeah...I'll add some MOAR images to the article later to make up for the "loss" in crap. --Onideus 19:57, 21 July 2013 (EDT)

New Hacks

This one is generic, from some cookie cutter shit, basically if you see 236 change it to 736 to get the full sized one.

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/91/c5/51/91c551501be425ec5489cf9950c4532e.jpg

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/91/c5/51/91c551501be425ec5489cf9950c4532e.jpg

--U Mad Bro 01:28, 13 January 2015 (EST)

Another New Hack

This one works with Tumble-Tard pictures. Basically if someone reports an image, like this one...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/1834fa6429916937d2624c502659300f/tumblr_mfh6bqg4h81s0cjm8o1_500.png

Awww, they took it away! The bastards! But if you swap the numbers around...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/1834fa6429916937d2624c502659300f/tumblr_mfh6bqg4h81s0cjm8o1_1280.png

Tada! You can see the image! Best of all in most cases they tend to report the smaller sized version rather than the larger one. --U Mad Bro 05:56, 19 January 2015 (EST)

This one is useful, maybe it works in Twitter too, because they have 2 different sizes for pics. --LmaoZedong

Only downside is that now that it's been pointed out they might fix it... or worse, retroactively fix it. So I'd get while the getting is good. So far, with Tumble-tard images I've found it's effective about 90% of the time. And yeah, it might work on other sites too that use different image sizes, but again, might not last too long... although not many people actually bother to read the help files so it might stick around... provided no one goes around pointing it out in other places (like 4Chan). Best to try and keep it a secret. --U Mad Bro 06:42, 19 January 2015 (EST)

FaceBook URL Hacks

They don't work anymore. I think there's a new way to get the original images but it's a bit convoluted, not sure off the top of my head. --U Mad Bro 19:22, 28 January 2015 (EST)

OK Cupid URL Hacks

Replace the "558x800" part with any letter, number or word...

http://k3.okccdn.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/150x150/558x800/96x0/735x639/0/2780489294838809701.jpeg

http://k3.okccdn.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/150x150/pleh/96x0/735x639/0/2780489294838809701.jpeg

--U Mad Bro 05:23, 15 February 2015 (EST)

Automated Image URL Maximization

Use Image Max URL database —— it will automatically find the highest quality or original image/gif/etc for basically every site. It has a browser extension and userscript, but mobile users can use the site.

It's open source so you can ask the dev or community to add/find websites on GitHub. <33

4ourty (talk) 15:29, 29 May 2023 (EDT)