Commons:Animated image resources

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Articles

• en:Graphics Interchange Format#Animated GIF
• en:ImageMagick

Categories

• Category:Animations
• Category:Animated GIF

Resources

• Category:Animation editors
• en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
• en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images and Media#Animated images project - proposed project.
• en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
• en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab
• Commons:Graphics village pump
• Commons:Graphic Lab

An animated GIF:

Image text: "We make the images not suck. Request an image improvement or creation of images at the Graphic Lab."

Note: Click the escape key to stop a GIF at any point. Reload the page to restart the animation. The escape key works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, but not in Chrome.

Animations to videos

 

The original animation is 1Mbyte, converted to a video it is 140Kbytes. See file info.

See:

• en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 75#Animations to videos
• Converting an animated GIF and Converting a Theora OGG video to an animated GIF in Help talk:Converting video
• en:Theora
• Category:Videos
• Commons:File types#Video
• Category:Commons video resources

Animated GIF size limit

The size of an animated GIF is calculated 2 different ways. For an explanation see the introduction of this category:

• Category:Animated gifs exceeding the 12.5MP limit

See also:

• en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 75#Animation for large GIF
• en:Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:CSA states evolution.gif

Forcing the rescaling of thumbnails of animated GIFs

Note: Animated GIFs that exceed the size limit are not scaled by MediaWiki. See the previous section and the links therein for more info.

Purge the image description page on the Commons. See en:WP:PURGE, and the sections there that discuss the use of purge gadgets. The purge gadgets seem to work most consistently for image rescaling. It may take awhile for MediaWiki to get around to doing the rescaling. It depends on how busy the MediaWiki software is, and on the task queue. After awhile reload the page with the thumbnail while bypassing your browser cache (Ctrl-F5 on Firefox). This may pull up the newly rescaled GIF thumbnail. See: en:WP:BYPASS. If this doesn't work you may need to try later. You may also need to purge that page also. A simple purge may work. If there is still a problem, ask for help at en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). --Timeshifter (talk) 06:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Better MediaWiki scaling of optimized animated GIFs

• Bugzilla:11822 - rescaling of animated gif increase size
• en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 75#GIF thumbnails in fact greatly increase file size!!!
• Bugzilla:24855 (MediaWiki 1.17) - Black color is always taken as transparent when downsampling GIF images (exsample)

Resizing tools, tips, help

• Resizing An Animated Gif.
• GIF Resizer.
• ImageMagick v6 Examples. Animation Modifications. See the section on "Resizing Animations."
• en:Wikipedia:PowerPoint to animated gif