TS-Thumb

This is TS-Thumb, the friendly thumb-forwarder on the Toolserver; it works like the mediawiki thumb-forwarder, but does not stress the wikimedia-server in the same way (and it has more features).

Options

TS-Thumb understands the following parameter:

• file The filename. Without the File:, Image:, Bild: or similar prefixes.
• dbname The name of the database the file is in. A common example is commonwiki.
• domainname Instead of the dbname you can also specify the domain-name of the wiki (like commons.wikimedia.org), but it is better the use the dbname-parameter.
• width The maximal width of the thumb. The thumb will not be widther then the given width, but it can be smaller. If you specify a width that is widther then the original image-width then you will get the original image. If you give maxthumb as the width, you will get a maximal width thumb. Only bitmaps (like jpgs or pngs) or drawings (like svgs) can be thumbinise, all other file-types will be in normal width.
• height The maximal height of the thumb. Same as width but it has no maxthumb option. If you specify both width and heigh, the thumb will be box-fitting
• showsvg A parameter that is only interesting for svgs. It has the following 3 options:
  • never TS-Thumb always returns a png for the svg (default).
  • always TS-Thumb always returns the svg (no good idea).
  • optional TS-Thumb returns the svg if the browser understands svgs and png if not.
• target Specify what TS-Thumb should do with you at the end. The following options are possible:
  • redirect Redirect you to the thumb (default).
  • url Show you the url to which TS-Thumb would you redirect for normal.

You can use the follwing short-cuts: f for file, d for domain, w for width and h for height, but using the full names if prefered. Only the parameters file and dbname (or domainname as replacement) are compulsive, all others are optional. TS-Thumb needs an working user-agent (if you have no idea what this is and you use a normal browser, don’t care; if you use a automatic tool (like a webcrawler or a bot) you have to care) for work.

A example-url would be http://toolserver.org/tsthumb/tsthumb?file=Wiki-commons.png&dbname=commonswiki&width=30.

Others

Some graphics about TS-Thumb can be found here.