A few days ago a friend (x) of a friend (y) showed me and my friend (y) a small app he was developing, that had photos from flickr and picasa. We suggested adding photos from Wikipedia as well, but he (x) said that the photos were too big, and it was too much trouble resizing them.
Luckily for him I knew of Wikipedia’s “hidden” image resizing feature, and as it was useful to me and to someone else, I thought I’d share it here.
Let’s say you are looking to resize the following image of the Eiffel Tower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg. Then the url to the image itself is:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg
To get the url to a resized image, just add ‘thumb/’ after ‘commons/’ and then add ‘/[%d]px-[filename]’ at the end, were %d is the new width. So for our image, the new url would be:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg/300px-Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg
That’s it, simple and quick. Have fun adding Wikipedia to your content!
Nice hack!
Were did you find this? in the wiki source code? :)
No, just by playing with various image links on Wikipedia.
Great one. I can contribute also that I found the same thing for gravatar, e.g. http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/1ad9e5c98d81c6815a65dab5b6e1f669?size=120
?size=x where x is any number (i think up to ~530)